Garden Paths

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ISBN: 9780944475393 | 0944475396
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/1993

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Like a good path, this book leads you along an approachable and stimulating route to designing and structuring your own landscape, no matter where your garden or on what scale.

Introduction
Model Gardens
Paths to Follow: Four Inspirations for Garden Design
An urban garden
A small suburban garden
A large suburban garden
An estate garden
Paths To Your New Garden: A Way to Unified Design
Cut Stone: The Most Formal Paving Material
Cut stone to the front door
Cut stone to a side or back door
Curving paths and planted gaps
Brick: Warmth and Versatility
Brick entrances
Visual and physical pace
Stone Carpets: Informal Fieldstone Walkways
Finding the right place
Planting the gaps Paths from patios
Lawn: The Living Alternative
The versatile lawn
Places for plants
Front lawn paths
Linking spaces
Climatic considerations
The meadow path
Concrete: The Liquid Material -- Plain, Embedded or Precast
Where to use concrete
Concrete with aggregates
Embedded concrete
Precast concrete
Concrete as natural-looking rock
Stepping Stones: Determining Pace
Stepping stones into Woodland Dimensions
Planting the gaps
Creating a mood
Cut stones
Wood rounds
Wood: Boardwalks, Bridges and Stairs
Boardwalks
Footbridges
Stairs
Hard Loose Materials: Gravel Crushed Stone and Other Crunchy Surfaces
Designing paths near the house
Designing paths away from the house
The path as edging
Soft Loose Materials: Bark Mulch, Pine Needles, Leaves and Earth
Bark mulch
Pine needles
Leaves
Trodden earth
Making The Path
The Cut Stone Path and Stone Carpet
Tools and materials
Design Making a cut stone walkway
Stone carpets of fieldstone
The Brick Path
Tools and materials
Design Making a brick path
Maintenance
The Lawn Path Tools and materials
Design
Soil preparation for sod and seed
The sod path
The lawn path
Cutting paths and beds from existing lawn
The Concrete Path
Tools and materials
Design
Preparing the area
The best mix
Embedding
Precast pavers
The Stepping-stone Path
Tools and materials
Design
Laying the stones
Stepping-stone steps
Wood rounds
The Wood Path
Tools and materials
Design
Boardwalks
Wooden blocks as stepping stones
The Loose Material Path
Laying hard loose material paths
Tools and materials
Design
Laying soft loose material paths
Tools and materials
Design
Planting the Gaps
Establishing plants in gaps
Moss in the gaps
Recommended plants
Appendices
Sources
Indigenous Materials
Associations, Manufacturers and Suppliers
An Annotated List of Public Gardens Worldwide
Bibliography a Photography Credits
Index
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