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Bold Visions For the Garden

Essays and Photographs by Richard W. Hartlage

An exuberant, sassy, and visually dazzling lesson in making a “garden with guts”!

In his stunning debut book, Bold Visions for the Garden, Richard W. Hartlage encourages readers to embrace gardening as the best of all the creative arts—an endeavor that includes color, form, texture, sound, sequence, and place. Sympathetic to the limitations of time, space, and budget that most gardeners face, Hartlage explains how planning and planting well, together with the willingness to be daring, helps the gardener to achieve great drama in the garden. For example, one doesn’t need a big-budget garden sculpture to make a statement. Instead, painting exterior walls cobalt can mirror the sky, or an ochre color will provide welcoming warmth—a strategy that requires only a willingness to be bold and to use a little elbow grease. Or, think big—instead of planting small plants in a small space, plant giant reed grass to tower overhead, making your visitors feel pleasantly dwarfed by such fanfare.

Like an artist sharing his secrets for painting a dramatic scene on a small canvas, Hartlage offers gardeners tips on the use of contrast, scale, and light. His inspiring insights and suggestions, together with his beautiful photographs, will provide both beginning and seasoned gardeners with the resolve and the tools they need to achieve new visions of their own.




		ISBN 1-55591-316-4 10 x 11,160 pages 125 full-color photographs, paperback with flaps, $29.95

Excerpt

There is no finality and there would be no satisfaction if there were.

—Russell Page

Education of a Gardener
Why do you garden? This is an essential question to ask. Is it to make a place to hold your plant collection? To extend your living space into the out-of-doors? Because you have an insatiable need to see things grow? Because you have a creative spirit that cannot be stopped, and a garden is yet another canvas? Because it is good physical exercise? Maybe to keep up with the neighbors?

I started gardening because I love plants. Now I garden because I thrive on the creative possibilities. Gardening is so endless in its opportunities, one could argue that it is only the brave or foolhardy who consider trying to make a garden. The fortunes that will be spent. The hours of planning, worrying, and redesigning. Then there is the maintenance—endless weeding, planting, replanting, sweeping, and cleaning-all to keep your garden in tiptop condition.

Is it all worth it? Yes. It is worth it. Little else in life encompasses such vast knowledge—from the science of growing plants to the design and art training that enables us to organize plants and other elements to make a place called a garden.




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