Beauty by Design: Inspired Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

by Bill Terry, Rosemary Bates

Overview

You may never look at a garden in the same way again. Though not a “how-to” book, Beauty By Design is a treasure trove of ideas and enchantment for seasoned gardeners and beginners alike. Eleven inspired artists of the garden share their stories, their secrets, and their passion for gardening. Landscape is the canvas. Foliage, flowers, rocks, water, and other bounties of nature are the materials. With plants, objects, art, and artifice, they create magical spaces, engage our senses, and summon forth pure delight.

Travel with Bill Terry and Rosemary Bates to these special places on the Pacific Northwest coast. Visit Dan Hinkley’s enchanted garden, perched above the shore of Puget Sound in Washington State. Close by, beauty explodes in an earthly paradise created by sculptors George and David Lewis and in Linda Cochran’s stunning garden of exotics. Cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Vancouver Island and potter Robin Hopper’s “Anglojapanadian” woodland wonderland. Enjoy the subtle blending of texture and colour in painter Eva Diener’s Sunshine Coast botanical garden. Admire the genius of Robert and Birgit Bateman’s inspiring space on Salt Spring Island, Des and Sandy Kennedy’s fairy-tale forest house and garden on Denman Island, and Kathy Leishman’s garden of refinement for all seasons on Bowen Island. In downtown Vancouver, Glen Patterson indulges his passion for alpines and conifers in his astonishing third-storey roof garden. Elsewhere in the city, Pam Frost’s eye for colour and arrangement transports the viewer out of the urban into the sublime, while on the Saanich Peninsula, writers Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane speak with love and eloquence of their garden, and in verse, too.

Accompanied by breathtaking photographs, these gardeners and their stories will inspire all who love to paint with plants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771510134
Publisher:	TouchWood Editions
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	31 MB
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About the Author

Bill Terry is a retired CBC executive. He is the author of Blue Heaven: Encounters with the Blue Poppy and Beyond Beauty: Hunting the Wild Blue Poppy. His calendar, Poppies from the Roof of the World, also features this rare and beautiful plant. Since 1994, he has lived on BC's Sunshine Coast with his wife, pursuing a lifelong ambition to create the perfect garden. His collection of Asiatic Poppies is the most diverse in North America. Please visit meconopsis.ca.

Born in Toronto, Rosemary Bates spent much of her life working as a print journalist in Winnipeg and Toronto. She later became a producer at the CBC of current affairs and arts programs, including The Arts Report and The Arts Tonight. As co-author of Beauty by Design she joins her husband, Bill Terry, in writing the stories of passionate gardeners.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 A Garden for All Seasons Kathy Leishman on Bowen Island 5

2 Windcliff Dan Hinkley on the Kitsap Peninsula 23

3 The Landscape Is Within Me Eva Diener on the Sunshine Coast 45

4 Nature by Design Robin Hopper on Vancouver Island 65

5 Pacific Frost Pam Frost in Vancouver 85

6 Making Pleasing Places Robert Birgit Bateman on Salt Spring Island 103

7 A Garden Is a Poem Patrick Lane Lorna Crazier on Vancouver Island 121

8 Still Dreaming of Paradise George David Lewis on Bainbridge Island 135

9 Brazen Beauty Linda Cochran on Bainbridge Island 149

10 The Gift to Be Free Des and Sandy Kennedy on Denman Island 167

11 The Man Who Loves Conifers Glen Patterson in Vancouver 181

Endnotes 199

Plant Index 201

Acknowledgments 206