Frank Carlson Library

For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our family houses and places of work, the gardens we have played and rested in, the landscapes we have travelled through and those we have come to call home- all of these inflect what van Schaik describes as our spatial intelligence. For better or worse, this understanding informs our interpretation...

This early work on Italian Villas and their Gardens is a beautifully illustrated look at the subject. Chapters include; Florentine Villas, Sienese Villas, Roman Villas, Villas near Rome, Genoese Villas, Lombard Villas and Villas of Venetia. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all historians Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and...

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Author Patti Barrett is stress-free as she gardens and cleans at home in Great...

How to design landscape architecture is a perfect book to get information on creating a wonderful landscape design. The book discusses basic to advance features and principles for building landscape architecture. It is a handy book for people who love gardening and want to make their backyard or front lawns beautiful and attractive by introducing landscape features from water bodies to garden contoures. Here is a glimpse of topics covered in this...

Los setos vivos no son meros elementos decorativos. También dan cobijo a una fauna muy valiosa para el jardinero o el agricultor respetuoso con el entorno, y constituyen una gran fuente de energía renovable. Mucho más que simples cerramientos o pantallas opacas verdes, los setos vivos son: - parte integrante de los paisajes rurales; - un elemento indispensable del entramado ecológico; - valiosos colaboradores del agricultor y del jardinero. Esta...

"A beautifully-written, practical guide to planning and creating your own rain garden." -Green Upgrader You probably spend hundreds of dollars watering your yard, but there is an easy way to save money and resources-by collecting rain to reuse in front and backyards. In Creating Rain Gardens, water conservation experts Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Apryl Uncapher walk you through the entire process, with step-by-step instructions for designing and...

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment...

"Barbara Schwartz was born into a family of quilters, but she would rather eat dirt than partake in another quilting frolic or sew on another binding. When her parents send her to Indiana to help her grandmother in her quilting shop, she finds herself amongst a very different community. It's only one summer and then she will be back in Kentucky where she belongs. Melvin Bontrager's world stopped six years ago when his parents died. Now when his only...

The British Isles consists of more than 6,000 islands scattered around the main islands of Britain and Ireland. More than 100 of these British offshore islands are inhabited – and where there are people, there are gardens. Lighthouse gardens, gulf-stream-soaked, tropical gardens, windswept remote gardens with giant and ancient yew trees, and gardens surrounding castles and monasteries of historical significance. Britain has more island gardens than...