Winterland - by Cathy Rees (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A practical, accessible, and lushly photographed guide to making your garden a place of beauty and inspiration during the winter months as well as throughout the year"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Filled with lush photography, this practical and accessible guide will show you how to make your garden a place of beauty and inspiration during the winter months, as well as throughout the year.</b> <p/>Why put all of our gardening effort into the magnificent but short months of summer? With <i>Winterland</i>, learn how the dramatic stillness of a garden in winter provides abundant opportunities to deepen our connection with nature. Accomplished landscape designer Cathy Rees guides you through the basics of creating rich and compelling all-season garden environments--exploring form, texture, plant choices, lighting, and more. Design strategies are reinforced by practical advice on garden care, pruning, maintenance, and coexisting with animals and birds. Learn how to position a distinctive tree to capture the first rays of a rosy December sunrise, or reconceive the flow of an entire landscape. <i>Winterland</i> gives gardeners the tools to develop outdoor havens that will evolve over seasons and years, to become true garden sanctuaries for any season.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"If you have any garden at all, you will want to get this book. And if you have a view of a neighbor's garden, you need to give them this book. (After you read it first)." - <b>The Washington Gardener</b>, <br><br><br>"In <i>Winterland</i>, Maine gardener Cathy Rees argues that if your garden shines in the snowy season, imagine how great it will look in spring, summer and fall.<br> - <b>Maine Sunday Telegram</b>, <br><br><br>"Here is an entire book devoted to designing a garden that will be pleasing to enjoy in winter despite the limitations....Rees, a gardener and horticulturist in Maine (where winter can last seven months), uses the expertise she's accumulated to highlight the seemingly small choices that can have a big impact during the fallow months between growing seasons. Where most gardening books that refer to winter focus on those warmer climates, this is a rare treat that concentrates on enjoying the garden even at a time when it must be done from indoors." <br> - ALA Booklist, <br><br><br>"Maine landscape designer Cathy Rees shares inspirational photographs and sound approaches for developing an attractive, functional, year-round garden....Winterland proposes a new way of thinking for gardeners in all climates, designed around the seasons. It shows that the enjoyment of natural spaces can continue even in dormant times." <br> - Foreword Reviews, <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Cathy Rees is a cofounder of Native Gardens of Blue Hill in Maine and has been gardening and consulting on the native landscapes of coastal Maine for more than twenty-five years. <p/>Lisa Looke is a nature photographer who also manages the image library for Wild Seed Project in Portland, Maine.
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