This handbook for landscape architects and others concerned with the creation of new landscape and the rehabilitation of degraded landscape, combines in one volume both the theoretical and practical aspects of landscape design with plant. Part 1 deals with the use of plants in landscape design, part 2 is concerned with techniques and part 3 consists of information sheets on plants and trees, giving concise illustrated data on species commonly used by landscape architects.
Part 1 Design: trees in the countryside, Brenda Colvin; planting for
forestry, Dame Sylvia Crowe and Gordon Patterson; trees in urban areas,
Gordon Patterson; shrubs and groundcover, Preben Jakobsen; herbaceous plants,
A.du Gard Pasley; water plants, Allan Hart. Part 2 Techniques: the use and
management of plant species native to Britain, Penny Beckett and David
Parker; urban landscape and roof gardens, Steven Scrivens; transplanting
semi-mature trees, R.L.Hebblethwaite; reclamation and planting of industrial
and urban wasteland, R.P.Gemmell; the landscaping of reservoir margins,
C.J.Gill and A.D.Bradshaw; plants and air pollution, Dr J.L.Innes; the use of
vegetation in slope stabilization, Nick Copping and Richard Stiles; planting
in tropical lowland areas, Henry Steed; planting in hot, arid climates,
Christopher Driver; the functional uses of Australian plants, Christine Avis
and James Mitchell; landscape management and the fourth design dimension,
Ralph Cobham; the establishment of trees and shrubs from seed, Mark Smeedon;
the establishment of trees and shrubs, Cedric Lisney and Colin Brown; design
management of interior landscape, Alan Cornford and Stephen Dale. Part 3
Plant and tree information sheets.
