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Keith Davitt's Small Spaces, Beautiful Gardens celebrates the possibilities for awkward, undersized garden parcels, demonstrating convincingly that no space is too small to make a big impact. Lacking dimensionality, most small gardens can be taken in visually with one glance. Davitt offers solutions for creating a sense of spaciousness and surprise, even in the most cramped, unlikely location.
A landscape designer, builder, photographer, and writer, Davitt draws on 16 projects from his own portfolio. "Before" and "after" photographs help illustrate both the process and principles of reconfiguring an outdoor space. Who could imagine, for example, that as ugly a duckling as a narrow, shaft-like urban lot surrounded on three sides by cinderblocks, painted brick and metal piping could be transformed into an enchanting series of multi-levelled wood decks, enlivened with container plantings?
Davitt's ideas are all the more convincing because he has photographed the gardens between peak bloom periods. Although spaces are lush with plant life, the book's emphasis is more on design than plant selection. Offering neither budget remedies nor step-by-step technical advice, Small Spaces, Beautiful Gardens is a beautiful book to pore over for inspiration. --Jennifer Wyatt, Amazon.com
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Written by a 20-year veteran of landscape design and aimed at those with limited space for a garden, this guide features 18 profiles of gorgeous small garden paradises. Using step-by-step instructions, before-and-after photographs and detailed plans, landscape architect Keith Davitt offers tips and techniques for creating the illusion of space through terracing, enlarging through dividing and adding texture and colour.
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"In designing and building gardens, nothing serves the designer so well as the concept of consulting the genius of the place-opening the higher senses and allowing the place to reveal its quintessential nature, then designing from there." Read the first page
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"In designing and building gardens, nothing serves the designer so well as the concept of consulting the genius of the place-opening the higher senses and allowing the place to reveal its quintessential nature, then designing from there." Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This books gives lots of advice for beautifull garden designs - especially if you are not into lawns. The principle of dividing your garden into small garden rooms to create the experience of space is thorougly explored in this book. A bonus is that it comprises more than one idea for shady gardens. Well worth reading.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
A great ideas for small gardens
29 Aug 2002
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I found this book to be especially helpful in visualizing small gardens. I wish that he had included some of the plant names used and sample gardening diagrams, but overall it's a great book for ideas.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Small Spaces, Beautiful Gardens
29 July 2002
Format:Hardcover
The ideal book for someone who is facing a vacant lot or garden wasteland and is interested in tapping the talent, inspiration and guidance of a gifted garden designer. Kevin Davitt takes the reader through a great number of his real life garden designs, challenging us to listen to the hidden "genius" in your prospective site. Eloquent and thoughtful, his writing is clear and encouraging, helping us to discover and visualize the sanctuary our garden space can become. Filled with beautiful photographs and drawings and side bars highlighting the key ideas in each project, we are gently introduced to the authors philosophy of space and nature. The author shares his years of experience and design wisdom so you can create a space that enhances your home and recharges and inspires your relationship to mother nature. A joy to read, makes you want to get outside and start building. Focuses on small urban and suburban garden designs, but ideas can apply to all garden design processes.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Esthetically engaging and pleasureable
4 Aug 2002
Format:Hardcover
The simplicity with which Keith Davitt has been able to convey complicated design concepts is extraordinary. He has combined this with exquisite illustrations and "before and after" photography. This book will inspire you with the confidence to transform even the most mundane of spaces into a visual and livable joy. It's also a must on our coffee table!
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