How to plan and plant your own property [ Planting design -- How to make a planting design -- The approach to the house -- Terrace plantings -- Trees and their associations -- Which place is yours -- Remodeled hillside property -- Windswept by the sea -- Waterfront cottage -- Small house near the ocean -- Weekend cottage -- Contemporary house -- Colonial house -- Small place for enthusiastic gardeners -- Remodeled salt box -- Plant collector's property -- Garden details -- Small gardens and garden rooms -- Garden features -- Groundcovers and paving plants -- Hedges and concealments -- Garden paths]
by Ireys, Alice Recknagel. [photos, Molly Adams, Hampfler, Louis Buhle, Bradbury, Clara Coffey, Eloise A Ray, Pitkin, Gottscho-Schleisner, Neuhof, Strauss, Rhoda Tarantino, Ann Morrison; plans, Howard Abel; nomenclature, L H Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey]
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New York, M. Barrows; distributed by M. Morrow, 1967, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 182 pages illustrations (some color) 29 cm ; LCCN: 67-19689 ; OCLC: 1187642 ; LC: SB473; Dewey: 712/.6 ; Planting plans by the author. Photos. by Molly Adams except as noted. ; green cloth, in color photographic dustjacket ; spot on front cover ; remainder mark on inside front endpaper ; scuff to back cover ; 199 beautifully composed black and white photos, 52 detailed garden plans, and 4 color photographs ; Contents: Fundamentals -- Planting design -- How to make a planting design -- The approach to the house -- Terrace plantings -- Trees and their associations -- Which place is yours -- Remodeled hillside property -- Windswept by the sea -- Waterfront cottage -- Small house near the ocean -- Weekend cottage -- Contemporary house -- Colonial house -- Small place for enthusiastic gardeners -- Remodeled salt box -- Plant collector's property -- Garden details -- Small gardens and garden rooms -- Garden features -- Groundcovers and paving plants -- Hedges and concealments -- Garden paths -- index ; "This is the first book on landscape design to give detailed working plans along with photographs that show how the plans have worked out in actual practice, in terms of the finished terraces and walks, the planted trees, shrubs, vines and flowers. in every case, the aim is practicality and low up-keep." ; "Alice Recknagel Ireys is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a registered Landscape Architect of New York State. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Architecture (now part of Harvard), she has been in independent practice since 1939. SHe has been a lecturer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she designed the Garden of Fragrance for the Blind; she has been a speaker at the Williamsburg Garden Symposium and at Longwood Gardens." ; designs are very forward-looking, anticipating the look of suburban gardens some 20 years into the future ; nicks to dustjacket ; some marks in colored pencil, else VG/G.
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
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- Title
- How to plan and plant your own property [ Planting design -- How to make a planting design -- The approach to the house -- Terrace plantings -- Trees and their associations -- Which place is yours -- Remodeled hillside property -- Windswept by the sea -- Waterfront cottage -- Small house near the ocean -- Weekend cottage -- Contemporary house -- Colonial house -- Small place for enthusiastic gardeners -- Remodeled salt box -- Plant collector's property -- Garden details -- Small gardens and garden rooms -- Garden features -- Groundcovers and paving plants -- Hedges and concealments -- Garden paths]
- Author
- Ireys, Alice Recknagel. [photos, Molly Adams, Hampfler, Louis Buhle, Bradbury, Clara Coffey, Eloise A Ray, Pitkin, Gottscho-Schleisner, Neuhof, Strauss, Rhoda Tarantino, Ann Morrison; plans, Howard Abel; nomenclature, L H Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- New York, M. Barrows; distributed by M. Morrow, 1967
- Date Published
- 1967
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