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Creating a Garden Retreat
An Artist’s Guide to Planting an Outdoor Sanctuary
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This book is ideal for novice and experienced gardeners alike who seek inspiration to create a heartfelt, artistic garden retreat. It particularly suits city dwellers wanting to transform limited outdoor spaces into vibrant, personalised gardens.
A lushly illustrated love letter to gardening, complete with inspirational takeaways for how to create the foundation for a basic outdoor space, from Virginia Johnson, beloved textile designer and author of Travels Through the French Riviera.
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A garden is more than the sum of its parts; a garden can be anything one wants it to be. What's important is that it have a heart. Through ethereal illustrations, textile designer and artist Virginia Johnson takes the reader on her own garden journey, from blank slate to dreamscape.
Over the years, she has transformed a small, narrow city lot into a garden that is personal, carefree, wild, and welcoming. It all began with a fence to allow her children to play freely but safely, and over the years has turned into a city-dweller's secret garden. Hornbeams, with their elegant shape, are the heroes of her garden, and the overall palette reflects an artist's lens — peonies, hollyhocks, roses, and hydrangeas abound.
Johnson explains her process with ease and clarity, bringing her ideas to life through words and illustrations so that readers can be encouraged and empowered to start their own garden journeys. The book is organised into clear chapters: Trees & Shrubs; Vines; Flowers; Seasons; Edibles; and more.
Creating a Garden Retreat offers a heartfelt and artistic approach to garden design, inspiring readers to create their own personal retreats.
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"Refreshingly low key. . . . Johnson’s irreverent sensibility will take the intimidation out of the game for those looking to have fun. New gardeners big on imagination will find Johnson’s encouragement just what they need to get out in the dirt." —Publishers Weekly
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ISBN: 9781648290022
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 10 May 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Artisan Books
Illustration: Color illustrations throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 192
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About the Author
Virginia Johnson is a Toronto-based textile designer and artist. Her collections of colorful prints on clothing, shawls, and home accessories have been sold around the world in stores including Anthropologie, Barneys, Holt Renfrew, J.Crew, and Liberty London. She is the author of Travels Through the French Riviera, and she also illustrated a series of books for Kate Spade and The Perfectly Imperfect Home for Deborah Needleman.
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