Gardening Book Suggestions
Every month, Liz will add to this list of books which you can purchase right now on the Garden Accents web site!
 
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ImageJust click on the book of your choice, follow instructions, and Amazon will deliver within three to four days. It's as simple as that. And to sweeten the deal - books from Amazon are priced way below bookshop pricing.
 
 

 
 
Country Living Garden Decorating : Accents for Outdoors
by Debra Muller Price, Nancy Mernit Soriano

Learn how to use garden gates and doors, rustic watering cans, clay pots, paths and walkways, lanterns, garden seats, sandstone borders and dining areas to increase the aesthetic quality and comfort of one's garden. 

 

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Garden Accessories : Designing With Collectibles, Planters, Fountains & More
Teri Dunn

"Garden Accessories" offers an inspiring tour of possibilities for decorating your outdoor space with charming accents. 

 

Antiques from the Garden
Alistair Morris

Quite simply, this is a list of every implement, structure, or leisure activity intended for the residential out-of-doors; in many cases, the appropriate photograph or illustration has been lifted directly from a manufacturer's brochure.

 

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Decorating Your Garden
Pat Ross

Inspired ways to use ornamental objects and furnishings outdoors.

 

Eden on Their Minds: American Gardeners with Bold Visions
Starr Ockenga

Illustrates how a diverse group of visionary American plantsmen and women have taken risks, pushed boundaries, and stretched traditions to create distinctive, idiosyncratic gardens. 

 

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Garden Antiques and Collectibles (For Your Garden)
by Teri Dunn

Scores of creative ideas for making use of vintage garden accents.

House Beautiful Gardens : Design Principles at Work Outdoors
by Editors of House Beautiful Magazine

Forgoing how-to information, House Beautiful Gardens brings the style the magazine is known for outside, to the garden.

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Antique Garden Ornament: Two Centuries of American Taste
Barbara Israel

This beautiful book came about as a result of dealer Barbara Israel's need for more information in her own specialty.

 

Garden Details
Warren Schultz

Accents, Ornaments, and Finishing Touches for the Garden.

 

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On Garden Style
Bunny Williams

Can the outdoors be designed as easily as the indoors? In straightforward language, and with gorgeous photographs, Bunny Williams takes the terror out of garden making.

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Garden Ornaments: A Stylish Guide to Decorating Your Garden
Martha Baker

A simple bench or a charming birdbath, a graceful trellis or a weathered fountain ~ the right ornament in the right place can transform any garden into a lush, private Eden.

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Garden Ornament : Five Hundred Years of History and Practice
George Plumptre

This book is a useful and visually instructive history of architecture and ornament in gardens that are the horticultural equivalent of the tower of Babel.

 

Smith and Hawken Garden Ornament
Linda Joan Smith

Clearly arranged and beautifully photographed, Linda Joan Smith's Garden Ornament is an intriguing look at the past and present of garden decoration.

 

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Garden Features and Ornament
David Stevens

As the title implies, Garden Features and Furniture focuses on the furnishings of garden spaces. Using his seemingly sixth-sense of garden design, Stephens offers countless ideas for improving the aesthetics of the garden.

 

The Ornamental Gardener : Creative Ideas for Every Garden
Miranda Innes


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The Decorated Garden Room : Interior Design for Your Outside Living Space
Tessa Evelegh

The first book on practical decoration for the outdoor room ~ beautiful, inspirational effects to transform any terrace or garden.

 

Garden Accents (For Your Garden)
Warren Shultz

For Your Garden: Garden Accents presents scores of ideas for decorating your garden with both formal and casual pieces, as well as suggestions for successfully integrating ornaments with plantings.

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The Living Wreath
Teddy Colbert

This is the only book on the subject of living wreaths by the originator with 20 years of research. The Living Wreath received The Art of Garden Communication Award from the Garden Writers of America in 1996.