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Cramer, James; Johnson, Dean

 
9781579651244: Window Boxes, Indoor and out: Indoors & Out
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ISBN 10: 1579651240 ISBN 13: 9781579651244
Editorial: Workman Publishing, 1999

Sinopsis

The authors present a year of invention and innovation, going well beyond traditional garden planters and herb baskets. Found objects are given new life as containers, and everything from wreaths and swags to simple rustic groupings become an indoor design element for every room.

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When design magazines want new and fresh ideas, they turn to James Cramer and Dean Johnson. In Window Boxes, Indoors and Out, these two gardeners, designers, artists, and stylists bring a wealth of talent and the freshest eye to the close-up pleasures of window boxes. The book spans a year of invention and innovation at Seven Gates Farm, the authors' nineteenth-century homestead and studio. The results are inspired ideas, hard-working advice, and more than 150 dazzling photographs of these delightful still lifes.

Given four seasons in which to flourish, this once spring/summer-only pleasure goes well beyond traditional garden planters and herb baskets. Found objects are given new life as containers for these beautiful tableaux, and everything from wreaths and swags to simple rustic groupings becomes design elements outdoors and in. A full source guide for locating containers, plants, seeds, bulbs, and flowers rounds out this exceptional volume.

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When design magazines want new and fresh ideas, they turn to James Cramer and Dean Johnson. In Window Boxes, Indoors and Out, these two gardeners, designers, artists, and stylists bring a wealth of talent and the freshest eye to the close-up pleasures of window boxes. The book spans a year of invention and innovation at Seven Gates Farm, the authors' nineteenth-century homestead and studio. The results are inspired ideas, hard-working advice, and more than 150 dazzling photographs of these delightful still lifes.

Given four seasons in which to flourish, this once spring/summer-only pleasure goes well beyond traditional garden planters and herb baskets. Found objects are given new life as containers for these beautiful tableaux, and everything from wreaths and swags to simple rustic groupings becomes design elements outdoors and in. A full source guide for locating containers, plants, seeds, bulbs, and flowers rounds out this exceptional volume.

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SUN & SHADE

Soil Mixture

1 cup builder's sand

1 cup potting soil

1 cup perlite

4 cups small stones

There's always a place for a window box, no matter how sunny or shady the location. Cacti and succulents are made for intensely sunny areas; we keep a bag of sandy soil premixed in the potting shed se we can create a quick display whenever we come across some interesting new varieties.

Every bit as beautiful are shady glens and nooks, where foliage is more effective than flowers. In fact, the newest thing in gardening today is big foliage, few flowers, and sometimes no flowers at all. The colors of leaves and their shapes and sizes are the focus, and the contrast between dark and light creates a serene effect that's soothing to the eye.

In late summer, we feed the window boxes and the gardens with 20-20-20 fertilizer, to force the last blooms from the flowers and grant us a final display of color and greenery. Then as the curtain falls on the season, everything gets a good pruning. We used to do this promptly, bringing on fall as soon as we could. But with every passing year, we're slowing the pace, holding on to the glory of summer for as long as we possibly can.

Excerpted from Window Boxes: Indoors & Out. Copyright (c) 1999 by Mary Seehafer Sears. Reprinted with permission by Artisan.

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Editorial
Workman Publishing
Año de publicación
1999
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ISBN 10 
1579651240
ISBN 13 
9781579651244
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Número de páginas
160
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