Soulscape: Connecting Gardens to Landscape

Name: Soulscape: Connecting Gardens to Landscape
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781925556698
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By Peter Shaw

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In Soulscape: Connecting Gardens to Landscape by Peter Shaw, the author explores the relationship between personal gardens and the larger natural landscapes they inhabit. The book offers insights into how our intimate garden spaces influence and reflect broader environmental contexts, providing tips on harmonising domestic gardens with the surrounding natural scenery. Ideal for both novice and experienced gardeners, it showcases how thoughtful landscaping can create a seamless connection between human-made and natural environments.
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You might enjoy this book if you are passionate about integrating natural landscapes with personal garden spaces. It offers insights into creating harmonious environments that reflect the broader ecosystem's beauty and balance, perfect for readers interested in sustainable and aesthetically pleasing garden design.

Soulscape: Connecting Gardens to Landscape

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Soulscape: Connecting Gardens to Landscape takes readers on a journey through ten gardens located along the world-famous Great Ocean Road. It illustrates the challenges and outcomes of creating a garden by the sea or in the wilderness, and how each garden fits within its natural environment.

Peter Shaw shares 'how to' information, coming from his own experience of over 25 years in designing, building, and maintaining coastal gardens, and his commitment to incorporating native and indigenous plants to enhance the wider landscape that they inhabit.

Collectively, the gardens in this book serve as a primer for homeowners, gardening enthusiasts, or anyone with a deep love for nature. It is also a book about landscape values. It is the story of Peter and Simone Shaw and the gardens they create in their business, Ocean Road Landscaping, their home garden, Sunnymeade, and how you can take inspiration to work with the landscape in creating your garden. The book includes a detailed, visual glossary of plants and trees.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925556698

Publisher: Melbourne Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 August 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: Melbourne Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 247.0mm

Height: 287.0mm

Weight: 1514g

Pages: 296

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Home & Garden Non-Fiction Penguin Books Peter Shaw

About the Author

Peter Shaw is the principal of Ocean Road Landscaping, an award-winning landscape architecture firm based in Anglesea, which he founded in 1995 with his wife, Simone Shaw. Their practice has a considered approach to constructing gardens that complement their local environment along the Great Ocean Road, Geelong and the Surf Coast of Victoria. Shaw's business, which started as a one-man operation 25 years ago, has now turned into a team of over 20 like-minded designers, landscape builders, plant specialists and maintenance gardeners. From creating his own garden, Sunnymeade, he developed a deep love of gardening by the sea. Working with the local environment, learning through trial and error, and overcoming challenges not faced by urban counterparts, allowed him to build a set of experiences and skills that are unique to the gardening world. Shaw shares his unique knowledge of coastal gardening through running workshops on developing gardens, holding a gardening show called 'Dig It' on Geelong's community radio, and giving public lectures on landscaping in bushfire areas, landscape design and garden building. He lives in Anglesea with Simone and their four children, Jarred, Matthew, Gabrielle and Rosie.