Field Guide to Outside Style

Name: Field Guide to Outside Style
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780760372999
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Design and Plant Your Perfect Outdoor Space

By Ryan McEnaney

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Summary

Field Guide to Outside Style by Ryan McEnaney offers practical and approachable advice on transforming your outdoor space into a comfortable, personalised extension of your home. Ideal for new homeowners or anyone looking to renew an overgrown garden, this guide helps readers identify their unique style by translating personal tastes in clothing, colours, and furniture into outdoor design. The book breaks down the process into manageable steps, including setting realistic expectations, choosing among classic, modernist, or naturalist design styles, and providing case studies with before-and-after illustrations to inspire and inform. Throughout, it emphasises sustainable, budget-conscious choices that ensure your garden thrives long-term.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book is ideal for new homeowners, novice gardeners, and anyone interested in DIY garden design who wants to create a personalised, sustainable outdoor living area without feeling overwhelmed by gardening jargon.

Field Guide to Outside Style is a fun and easy-to-follow guide to designing and planting the outdoor living space of your dreams.

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Make your outdoor space as comfortable and personal as the inside of your home with design and planting guidance from Field Guide to Outside Style. Maybe you've just purchased your first home or you have an existing outdoor space that's overgrown and old-fashioned, and you want to turn it into a place that blends perfectly with your sense of style and your life.

But where should you start? How can you be sure to create a space you can sustain? Field Guide to Outside Style leads the way. You'll learn to personalise your outdoor living space with the right plants, furnishings, and other design elements to create a space that reflects you perfectly, even if you've never sunk a shovel into the soil before.

The word "gardening" can be intimidating if you aren't used to digging in the dirt, yet you want a gorgeous outdoor living area you feel proud of. Author and outdoor living pro Ryan McEnaney helps you make it happen by meeting you where you are. He cuts out the intimidating stuff, doesn't use scary terms, and supports you through the entire process.

Start with what you already love. Learn how to translate your choices in clothing, colours, furniture, and architecture into an understanding of how to design your outdoor areas.
Next, set parameters and expectations. Learn how to plan smartly so you don't get in over your head.
Then, select your aesthetic. Decide which of three primary outdoor design styles—the classic, the modernist, and the naturalist—suit you best and use easy-to-digest, mix-and-match design suggestions and recipes to create an outdoor living area of your dreams.
Plus, see your options in action. Through case studies accompanied by before-and-after illustrations of outdoor rehab projects, you'll walk away with a clear understanding of the options for you and your space.

Close the book confident in your ability to select plants and design concepts that work in your region, fit within your abilities, and ultimately match the rest of your life perfectly. And to sweeten the deal, the long-term success of your new outdoor space is supported by information on seasonality, sticking to a budget, and creating a balanced space to ensure your newly discovered outside style shines for many years to come.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Reviewers praise McEnaney's friendly, humorous approach that makes garden design accessible even to novices. Le Jardinet highlights the book's balance of style and practical considerations like maintenance and budget, calling it essential reading. Northern Gardener recommends it as a helpful guide for new homeowners and gardeners embracing their outdoor style. Horticulture Magazine appreciates its fun, easy-to-follow format and usefulness for do-it-yourselfers seeking to plan and appreciate their outdoor spaces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760372999

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: 200 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 930g

Pages: 208

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Home & Garden Non-Fiction Ryan McEnaney

About the Author

Ryan McEnaney is a fifth-generation family member and owner at Bailey Nurseries, a 115-year-old nursery headquartered outside of St. Paul, Minnesota. The company has grown to be one of the largest producers of shrubs and trees in the United States. McEnaney oversees public relations and social media for the brands and serves as their national consumer spokesperson. To support this, he has been quoted in publications such as Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens, and Martha Stewart Living; has appeared on television throughout the United States; and travels the country educating homeowners on how to be successful in the garden. His approach revolves around fun, breaking down barriers to gardening, and creating a welcoming space to collaborate. McEnaney currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Garden Bureau, as well as multiple committees for GardenComm: The Association for Garden Communicators, Seed Your Future, AmericanHort, and the Minnesota Nursery & Landscape Association.