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Fairy Homes and Gardens Barbara Purchia and E. Ashley Rooney. Fairy Homes and Gardens. Barbara Purchia and E. Ashley Rooney. Introduc- tion by David D. J. Rau. Using natural and con- temporary mediums, 30 designers portray their fairy worlds in a variety of settings. More than 200 images take you on a virtual wonderland tour around the world. Sit back and revel in their creativity or be inspired to make your own fairy home or garden. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206mm) • 256 color images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-4698-9 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Fancy Fences & Gates: Great Ideas for Backyard Carpenters Tina Skinner. This rich resource shows dozens of beautifully crafted fences and gates. A how-to section helps you plan, plot, and execute your own project. Included are ideas for privacy fences, fence/planter combinations, built-in seating, and arbor gates • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 74 photos, 12 graphics • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-1417-9 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Fences, Gates & Walls Ashley Rooney. Adding a wall or fence to your property can be a major decision. It requires good design and good thinking to identify the style, design, and material that meets your needs. Hundreds of examples are shown in 316 full color photos, offering a comprehensive reference for home- owners, architects, landscapers, and builders • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 316 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-2643-1 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Garden Ornaments: Pots, Pergolas, Pedestals, and More E. Ashley Rooney. Statues, fountains, sundials, and obelisks—garden ornaments can breathe life into a garden, no matter its size. Experience an insider’s tour of garden ornaments and learn from five notable artists as they describe their philosophies of art. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 489 photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-1956-3 • HC • $34.95 / £31.99 / 48.95 CAD Garden Ornaments and Antiques Myra Yellin Outwater & Eric B. Outwater. Visit hundreds of beau- tiful gardens and enjoy marble and stone walkways, garden walls, tiered fountains, statuary, architectural ruins, birdbaths, sundials, urns, garden furnishings, and iron gates. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 582 photos • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-1125-3 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / 56.95 CAD Garden Projects for the Backyard Carpenter Tina Skinner. Thirty great project ideas! Illustrations and step-by-step instructions make it easy to create more than 30 projects: decks and shade shelters, ga- zebos, work and storage areas, decorative arbors, planter boxes and garden borders, benches and a swing, a picnic table, doghouses, and a bluebird nesting box. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 438 photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-1234-2 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Children’s Playhouses: Plans & Ideas Tina Skin- ner. Picturing hundreds of colorful, creative children’s playhouses from fancy Victorians to neo-classical creations, all built in a child’s scale. Plans and blueprints for six playhouses are provided, and a resource guide to manufacturers • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 192 color &b/w images •160 pp. •978-0-7643-1416-2•PB• $29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD The Deck Book: Inspirational Design Ideas Melissa CardonaHickory Dickory Decks. Explores hun- dreds of custom-built decks in more than 300 inspiring color photographs. Includes ideas for planters, railings, privacy screens, deck skirting, fire pits, gazebos, per- golas, built-in spas and barbecue areas, large steps, and lighting options. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 300+color photos •128 pp. •978-0-7643-2284-6•PB• $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Espalier Fruit Trees For Wall, Hedge and Pergola: Installation • Shaping • Care Karl Pieber & Peter Modl. By training fruit trees and shrubs you accomplish two goals: improved appearance and increased produc- tivity. All types of trellises, including wall-covering cordons and free-standing pergolas, are featured here. • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 240 color photos & sketches • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4488-6 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Antique Garden Tools and Accessories Myra Yellin Outwater, with photography by Eric Boe Outwa- ter. 200 years of garden history are presented in the hundreds of tools and accessories that gardeners used to dig the soil, cut scrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. With more than 750 color photographs, concise captions, and a guide to prices in today’s antique marketplace, this is a useful as well as beautiful exploration of gar- den implements • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 750+ color photos•192pp. •978-0-7643-1478-0•HC•$39.95 / £36.99 / 56.95 CAD Basic Topiary: A Living Approach Dean Myers. The art of topiary is made accessible to every gardener. With well-illustrated, easy-to-understand instructions, three projects are offered: a peacock (with instructions for its transformation into an angel), a Gothic arch, and a duck. The projects shown use small potted plants from the nursery, but the techniques are readily adapt- ed to shrubs and bushes in the garden • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •262 color images •64pp. •978-0-7643- 3634-8 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Beach Boundaries: Fences and Gates of Southern California Linda Byrne and Robert Scott. Tour gardens and homes of Los Angeles County: Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach. Here find compelling photographs that act as a guide for homeowners and garden- ers who are looking to define their outdoor spaces. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 114 color photos • 80 pp. • 978-0-7643-4097-0 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD The Big Book of Gazebos, Pergolas, and Other Backyard Architecture Tom Denlick & Tina Skinner. More than 400 photos illustrating an inconceivable quantity of architectural additions for the backyard, from arched gateways to grand gazebos, pretty per- golas, picture-perfect pagodas, and fascinating follies. An illustrated glossary gives you the language and historical reference to achieve a more interesting home and garden. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 422 photos & 40 illustrations • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-3170-1 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Victorian Gardens Caroline Holmes. Many resto- rations and re-creations of Victorian gardens are high- lighted, including Osborne House on the Isle of Wight (Queen Victoria’s country home), Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, and Down House in Kent (home to Charles Darwin). Authentic Victorian writings, design instruc- tions, and illustrations guide the modern gardener • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 200+ color photos • 160 pp. •978-0-7643-1889-4•HC•$30.00 / £27.99 / 42.95CAD 1000 Fences and Gates Jo Cryder. Packed with fences and gates of every kind and descrip- tion, from practical and functional to purely or- namental, from rustic to sophisticated, from unusual to inspired. A wealth of wrought iron as well as wood and mixed materials are represent- ed in this huge portfolio • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 708 color photos • 152 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2409-3 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD All Decked Out Redwood Decks: Ideas and Plans for Contemporary Outdoor Living Tina Skinner. More than 200 color photographs of decks from around the country are presented with plans and ideas for overcoming slopes, incorporating trees, en- circling spas, creating conversation pits, and enhancing gardens. Planner and hints to get started. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 212 color photos/31 illus. • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-0510-8 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD Magical Fairy Homes and Gardens Barbara Pur- chia & E. Ashley Rooney, Foreword by David D. J. Rau. Featuring the work of dozens of talented artists, this richly illustrated and redesigned follow-up to Purchia and Rooney's Fairy Homes & Gardens further spurs the imagination with images and stories of more than 50 new fairy dwellings. • 6 3/4" x 8 3/4" (171 x 222 mm) • 282color and2B&Wimages•144pp. •978-0-7643-6745- 8 • PB • $24.99 US / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Olmsted Parks in New Jersey Jeanne Kolva. A historic overview of the parks in New Jersey that the Olmsted landscape architects created primarily for three county park commissions. Illustrated with more than 200 historic and contemporary photographs, vintage postcards, and Olmsted sketches and plans, this survey chronologically details the development of each park or reservation as it was transformed from former farmland, swamp, forest, or previous park • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 205 images • 176 pp. • 978- 0-7643-3872-4 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / 56.99 CAD Spanish Gardens & Patios Mildred Stapley Byne and Arthur Byne. This book offers a multitude of ideas in the forms of architecture, hardscaping, and land- scaping. It is also a wonderful tour of historic gardens, including the Alhambra, and gardens of notables, in- cluding the Duke of Medinaceli, the Duke of Alva, Seville, and the Marques de Viana, Cordova. Regions covered include Granada, Ronda, Las Ermitas, Sierra de Cordova, and Majorca • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •168 b/wphotos, 26 illus •272 pp. •978-0-7643-2834-3 • PB • $30.00 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD California Gardens of the Arts & Crafts Period Eugene O. Murmann. Historic California garden design as recorded by Eugene O. Murmann (1900–1962). Released in 1914, the book details 50 garden plans with 103 photographs of actual gardens. This book is a wealth of imagery and ideas about Arts & Crafts era sensibilities, Japanese gardens, and Mission-influenced landscape design. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 154 b/wphotos & illustrations • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-2861-9 • HC • $25.00 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Heritage Gardens, Heirloom Seeds: Melded Cultures with a Pennsylvania German Accent Michael B. Emery &, Irwin Richman. Heritage gardens and heirloom seeds are joined at the hip, but previous books have separated them. This is the first holistic look at the most vibrant trends in contemporary hor- ticulture. Lavishly illustrated, it is a manual, history, and guide to sources, gardens, and historic landscapes. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 672 color and b/w images • 272 pp. • 978-0-7643-4863-1 • PB • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE & ACCESSORIES | 83 Landscape Structure & Accessories • Landscape Structure & Accessories