Lifelong Landscape Design

by Mary Palmer Dargan

Overview

Lifelong landscape design means thinking about more than your garden. It involves encouraging your community to be a well-rooted environment consisting of friends who share home-grown produce, walk in the neighborhood, recycle, water harvest, compost and are watchful of each other’s well-being.

Lifelong landscape designs create environments that connect with nature, encompass a home, and promote healthy living by providing mobility, social interaction, and places to sustain the body and soul. Learn easy steps to design your own lifelong landscape through more than 200 landscape patterns and activities that illustrate components of healthy living. Enhance the quality of your life at any stage with practical advice from this inspirational landscape architect with more than 30 years experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423620730
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	916,131
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan are nationally known principals in the Atlanta-based firm of Dargan Landscape Architects. Their projects have been published in many national publications and on Home and Garden Television (HGTV). They are both members of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Hugh Dargan is a founding member of the Southern Garden History Society. The Dargans are popular speakers at horticultural society and garden club meetings across the country.

Read an Excerpt

At a time when life’s demands push us to the edge, many are seeking a landscape of refuge and tranquility that is more in harmony with nature. Spaces that restore and offer an escape from our everyday stress have now been proven to enhance healing and longevity. Landscape architect Mary Palmer Dargan offers a new book with a central mission to provide the individual homeowner with a guide to lifelong landscape design.

Building on the principles of Dargan’s first book, Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, she integrated life lessons learned over the course of almost forty years of practice in residential landscape design and a commitment to environments that restore balance, promote well-being and engage lifelong communities. Using both eastern and western design principles, her holistic approach to lifelong landscape design provides a sensitive site development philosophy for existing and new residences. The book explores landscape patterns that inspire health and longevity and provides a how-to guide for creating harmonious outdoor spaces that reduce stress and uplift the body and soul.

Table of Contents

8 Acknowledgments

12 Foreword

14 Introduction

20 C hapter 1: The Web of Life

50 C hapter 2: Social Places

70 C hapter 3: Be Active

82 C hapter 4: Passive Places

94 C hapter 5: Freedom of Access & Choice

110 C hapter 6: Activate Your Senses to Reduce Stress

124 C hapter 7: Gardening Is Therapy

138 C hapter 8: The Healthy House & Living Communities

158 C hapter 9: The Master Plan

180 C hapter 10: Designs for the Stages of Life

199 Conclusion

200 Resources

202 Bibliography

204 Index