Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden.ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDEN DESIGN AND STRUCTURE: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden DEREK FELL Carefully selected flowers, plants, structures, and other design elements lie at the heart of the world's most beautiful gardens. With more than 800 color photos, Fell compiles examples of gardens such as Monet's garden at Giverny, Dumbarton Oaks Dumbarton Oaks is a 19th century Federal-style mansion with famous gardens in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It currently houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., and his own award-winning garden at Cedaridge Farm in Pennsylvania as helpful references and sources of inspiration for gardeners in their own backyards Fell opens the guide with an overview of the history of gardening This entry concerns the history of ornamental gardening considered as an amenity of civilized life, as a vehicle for style, for conspicuous show and even an expression of philosophy. trends in formal and informal landscapes. Most of the book is an encyclopedic en·cy·clo·pe·dic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia. 2. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition" list of more than 150 garden-design features including bridges, courtyards, fences, and ground cover, and whimsical elements such as mirrors, labyrinths, topiaries, and garden gnomes Gnomes The 15-year pass-through securities offered under Freddie Mac's cash program. Notes: Investors sell their mortgages through Freddie Mac's cash program. The 15-year mortgages sold to Freddie Mac form the pool of mortgages that back the securities referred to as Furthermore, Fell explains the differences among English, French, Italian, and Japanese gardens and provides insightful commentary on selecting the best design elements, planting, and maintaining year-round interest Firefly firefly or lightning bug, small, luminescent, carnivorous beetle of the family Lampyridae. Fireflies are well represented in temperate regions, although the majority of species are tropical and subtropical. , 2006, 224 p., color photos, hardcover, $29.95. |
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