The Welcoming Garden | 
| Author: Gordon Hayward
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $8.01
You Save: $21.94 (73%)
New (35) Used (12) from $8.00
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 286836
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1586857045
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9
EAN: 9781586857042
ASIN: 1586857045
Publication Date: December 27, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New & Unread Book that not Have Remainder Mark/ May Have Slight Handling Wear From Bookstore Shelf
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Renowned garden designer Gordon Hayward's newest book focuses on one major principle: creating front-yard gardens that will inspire and invite, transforming neighborhoods and encouraging people to create compelling spaces in which to relax, visit with neighbors, and enjoy a natural space. A front garden should welcome, enliven, enrich, and engage. < BR>
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Nice Illustrations February 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a decent guide to front-yard gardens, and I liked a lot of the photographs. One thing that really annoyed me, though, were the little diagrams/layout pictures in each chapter; they seemed to have no correlation with the photos. It was as if the photos were of real gardens but the diagrams were hypothetical. Personally, I love it when a house or garden design book has correlating photos and "floorplans" (or whatever you call it for a garden); it really helps me visualize the jump from 2-D to 3-D, especially in terms of scale. This book has the photos, and has the 'floorplans', but they don't correspond. Other than that, it is a nice, solid idea book for the front garden.
 A Welcome Addition March 9, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was everything my "much better half" had hoped for - she's delighted!
 HAYWARD-Welcoming Garden February 7, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a decent edition, though I can't say it improves on Hayward's Your House, Your Garden or others in the field. The quality of the illustrations really varies, and some locations are redundant to YHYG. I was looking for advice about replacing my front lawn and wish I'd found more here. My top picks for garden design remain Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, by Noel Kingsbury; Front Yard Gardens, by Liz Primeau; and the Piet Oudolf books.
Blueprints for Welcoming Front-Yard Combinations July 27, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
"The new American garden means living and walking among plants, following a path from driveway to front door among ornamental grasses and Russian sage, talking with friends under apple and cherry trees at the front of the house." ~Gordon Hayward
Gordon Hayward's ideas can be incorporated into any style of garden. If you have a walkway to the front door or need to manage an especially large lawn, his ideas will create a beautiful nurturing space you will love coming home to.
The book is organized in a step-by-step design. You can see the complete design from a landscaper's viewpoint and then see the finished beauty in pictures. Some of the features include:
An Old Weathered House with a Cottage Garden
A Home Completely Surrounded by a Garden
A Small Garden around Big Front Steps
A Garden Running Straight to the Front Door (cover picture)
Sidewalk Garden
A Generous Sitting Area in a Small Front Garden
A Sunny Organic Garden
Each idea also has a special section of "Design Principles." The author explains the pictures so you gain a sense of how a designer thinks when planning out a new yard. There are many ideas to love and there is a good balance of creativity and practical solutions.
~The Rebecca Review
Designing for the Front of the House April 4, 2006
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
The tradition in the United States has been to have a fairly plain front yard and to put the emphasis on the back yard. If we think of the front yard at all, it's usually pretty bland. The chairs, the table, the fountain go in the back yard.
This book kind of turns that around. Here are gardens for the front of the house. Maybe that's where the view is, maybe you just want guests to feel welcome, maybe you don't have a back yard, maybe you just want the house to be a nice from the front as the back.
Gordon Hayward is an expert in garden design. Here he concentrates on the front yard. He features many of his own designs as well as designs from all around the country.
The book is broken into ten chapters that cover all aspects of designing a garden for the front yard. It begins with a discussion on style and then has a chapter on each major component such as driveways, walkways, the strip between the sidewalk and the street and so on.
Each of these chapters is beautifully illustrated with full color photographs. The result is a raft of ideas that you might use as you create your own design.
|
|
|
