Plants in Design emerged from Brad E. Davis's and David Nichols's love for plants and well-designed landscapes and a previous frustration with landscape design guidebooks. While most landscape and garden design resources focus either on design principles or on plant materials, the unique strategy of Plants in Design provides a palette of options organized by mature size and scale, covering many genres of plants from grasses to herbaceous perennials, woody shrubs and trees, and even annuals and interior plants--all of which are necessary for consideration when composing a well-designed landscape. Plants in Design combines two fundamental components of landscape and garden design: (1) principles and uses of plant material (e.g., color, line, texture), and (2) resource information for analyzing and selecting a broad range of plant materials, from annuals and ground covers to shrubs and trees, for southern landscapes (USDA hardiness zones 6 to 9). Introductory chapters discuss plants and their uses in creating outdoor landscapes in settings ranging from small-scale applications (e.g., courtyards, walkways) to medium- and large-scale projects (e.g., streetscapes, parks). Richly illustrated with approximately 1,750 color photographs, Plants in Design depicts plant shape, form, characteristics, and landscape use, both to aid identification and to envision how individual plants might appear in a composition. The authors promote the use of native species to benefit native wildlife and point out the dangers of many nonnative plants widely used in the past and now threatening natural ecosystems. Featuring five hundred southern landscape plants organized into fifteen categories, ranging from large trees to ferns and flowering annuals, plant accounts include scientific and common names, hardiness zones, flowers and fruit, growing conditions, and pests and diseases. The guide also includes drawings, a hardiness zone map, glossary, bibliography, index, and design-use tables for quick reference.

Plants in Design: A Guide to Designing with Southern Landscape Plants (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Davis, Brad

Nichols, David

Gardening & Landscape Design

Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books

About the Contributor(s): Brad Davis is on the faculty of Pomfret School, a Connecticut boarding school, and has taught also at the College of the Holy Cross and Eastern Connecticut State University. He has published several books of poems, most recently Opening King David (2011), and edited the anthology Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011 (2012) for the twentieth anniversary of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.

Still Working It Out: Poems (Poiema Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Wipf and Stock

Opening King David (Emerald City Books)

Nighttime DSLR Photography  How to create awesome and stunning images at night When the suns sets and the moon comes out, the normal buildings, monuments or bridges glow by their own lights. The night gives extra charm to everything, whether it’s a person or a building or even beautiful scenery. It becomes important for the Photographer to capture such beautiful and stunning subjects. This book will give you an insight into nighttime photography by DSLR cameras. This Book will focus on Nighttime Photography of different objects, mainly Star Trails, Auroras, Monuments, Cityscapes, Portraits, Animals et cetera. There are many different functions and settings in DSLR cameras and to use them properly and efficiently is an important task to achieve. This book contains various tips and tricks to capture the perfect and great images of various subjects. Every Photographer knows about the tools, like, Shutter Speed, ISO settings, Aperture settings, Exposure time, lenses et cetera but it is important to know and understand the proper use of these tools and how they can be changed accordingly to capture the perfect photograph. Here is a preview of what you'll learn:Tools and Settings required for Nighttime photographyNighttime Landscape PhotographyNight Sky PhotographyNighttime Portrait PhotographyAnd much more Download your copy of " Nighttime DSLR Photography" by scrolling up and clicking "Buy Now With 1-Click" button.

Nighttime DSLR Photography: How to create awesome and stunning images at night

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

DSLR Portrait Photography Simple techniques how to create beautiful pictures using your DSLR camera Portrait photography is a common practice nowadays. One may need to take a photo of a single individual or a group of individuals to express their moods or personalities. However, portrait photography is more challenging as most photographers usually end up getting poor photos. The reason behind this is lack of guides for doing this. Here is a preview of what you'll learn:
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<li> Portraits with Blurred Background </li>
<li> Brightening day-time portraits </li>
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<li> Using Flash to eliminate Harsh Shadows </li>
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DSLR Portrait Photography: Simple techniques how to create beautiful pictures using your DSLR camera (Dslr Photography)

Themes

The human experience is an intimate, tough, and, at times, hilarious conversation with what is familiar and what is mystery. Poetry at its best turns this conversation into art and teaches by example how to employ language creatively and courageously--even coyly--in exploring the full range of human response to whatever life may deliver. Certainly the biblical Psalms set the highest of standards in this regard. In Opening King David, Davis takes aim at making contemporary poems in conversation with the Psalms; his personal, cultural, and natural surroundings; and the wonder and mess of his own soul. As a painter with all colors at his disposal, Davis writes with the full spectrum of his available vocabulary, sometimes reaching for the glorious ineffable, at other times bluntly telling it like it--darkly--is. Neither devotional nor inspirational nor religious, these human poems take God seriously and honor our common struggle toward what Saint Paul calls "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."

Opening King David: Poems in Conversation with the Psalms (Emerald City Books)

Resource Publications (OR)

In various voices and with a range of strategies, these poems speak of and into the collisions we experience day in and day out-collisions with nature, art, language, religion, family, imagination, new and old ways of seeing and navigating the world-collisions that result in loss and sadness, confusion and laughter, gratitude and amazement. Still Working It Out, a collection that moves freely between memory and invention, embodies a faithful struggle to attend to and engage life with all senses on high alert for what may crush or sustain or gloriously transfigure.

Cascade Books

Trespassing on the Mount of Olives (Poiema Poetry)

Poetry

These poems explore freely the familiar ground of the Gospels in the New Testament, often from an odd angle or unexpected point of view. Some are grounded in the author’s sense of the biblical present, others in the author’s or an imagined speaker’s present; all are accompanied by a triggering Scripture reference to provide background for the curious or a focus for further reflection. As stated in the author’s preface, “These are poems, not doctrinal or evangelistic treatises. Their task . . . is to work and wear well as poems.”

Trespassing on the Mount of Olives: Poems in Conversation with the Gospels (Poiema Poetry Series)

New Creations Coloring Book Series: Scriptures

Davis, Dr. Teresa

New Creations Coloring Book Series

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