Refresh Your Garden Design With Color Texture And Form

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Refresh your garden design with color texture and form. Photo courtesy of rebecca sweet. There are many elements that go into designing a garden color form sound fragrance even the texture of the plants texture in garden design refers to the surface quality of the plant. If you try even one of her many great ideas for turning a drab yard into a dazzling landscape you ll be rewarded with a newfound confidence to go further.

This tip exposes those areas where the texture and form of your plants blend together to create a shapeless mass of boring. 1440330409 toronto public library. Find your zone in the background anchor this garden and exhibit a coarse texture while the white pines pinus strobus cvs zones 3 to 8 and the alberta spruces picea glauca conica zones 2 to 7 bring in a soft fuzzy textural quality that.

Likewise tree forms range structurally from having the stiffly upright branches of lombardy poplar trees to the droopy quality of a weeping willow. Refresh your garden design with color texture form by rebecca sweet will be available in bookstores october 2013. 19 99 author and garden plants trees.

These colorado blue spruces picea pungens cvs usda zones 3 to 7. The element of form is defined as the shape of a plant and the structure of its branching pattern for a picture illustrating form see page 1. Refresh your garden design with color texture form rebecca sweet.

Refresh your garden design with color texture form by rebecca sweet a book review it s been awhile since i ve done a book review and somehow this one right now seems the perfect title for jumping back in. Refresh your garden design with color texture form by rebecca sweet 160 pages softcover horticulture books 2013 list price. The beautiful garden book refresh your garden design is now on the scene the book is latest work of california garden designer rebecca sweet owner of harmony in the garden and the talent behind the blog gossip in the garden.

Rebecca sweet shows you how to look at your garden with new eyes using photographs and demonstrates that the addition or elimination of just one. Trees come in many shapes especially if pruned including columnar and globular shapes. This book communicates the fundamentals of color texture and form to experienced gardeners.