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The Beautiful Edible Garden: Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
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Product Description One of Amazon's Best Garden Books of 2013. From the founders of landscape design firm Star Apple Edible & Fine Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area comes a stylish, beautifully-photographed guide to artfully incorporating organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs into an attractive modern garden design.We've all seen the vegetable garden overflowing with corn, tomatoes, and zucchini that looks good for a short time, but then quickly turns straggly and unattractive (usually right before friends show up for a backyard barbecue). If you want to grow food but you don't want your yard to look like a farm, what can you do? The Beautiful Edible Garden shares how to not only grow organic fruits and vegetables, but also make your garden a place of year-round beauty that is appealing, enjoyable, and fits your personal style. Written by a landscape design team that specializes in artfully blending edibles and ornamentals together, The Beautiful Edible Garden shows that it's possible for gardeners of all levels to reap the best of both worlds. Featuring a fresh approach to garden design, glorious photographs, and ideas for a range of spaces--from large yards to tiny patios--this guide is perfect for anyone who wants a gorgeous and productive garden. Review "The Beautiful Edible Garden combines aesthetic sensibility and literally down-to-earth pragmatism with insight and ingenuity. Who knew that a plot full of weeds and scrubby trees could so readily be transformed into a garden of earthly delights just a few steps away from the kitchen, and just a few more easy and thoughtful steps away from an arrangement for the dining room? Whether your yard is big or small, out back or in front, or limited to a few containers on a balcony, you can "pursue food production and beauty together" - Joanna Brichetto, Book Pages "The Beautiful Edible Garden combines several different tactics for encouraging readers to create gardens they can quite literally eat ... My favorite (and clearly dog-eared) discovery were these persimmon trees.... Another tactic utilized by authors Bittner and Bennett is the introduction of gorgeous flower arrangements and displays by Studio Choo. Full of (you guessed it!) edible components, the arrangements are simply divine and inspired me to get outside, break out the clippers and get to arranging again." -- Amy Renea, A Nest for All Seasons "A newly published book by authors who live in the San Francisco Bay Area reminded me that plenty of food-producing plants have beautiful, luxuriant foliage -- and flowers -- to contribute beauty. If you don't have room to plant and grow a real crop, then why not plant a border of leaf lettuces or curly parsley plants; place chard or mustard in the middle of an ornamental bed?" -- Dallas Morning News "Now, the best advice from this design duo has been folded into a book that provides a good primer for making your vegetable garden as beautiful as it is productive. The Beautiful Edible Garden focuses on how to implement simple principles of basic garden design for success at both growing the food you want for your table and enjoying the aesthetic pleasures of bringing it there." -- Cheryl Koehler, Edible East Bay About the Author LESLIE BENNETT and STEFANI BITTNER are co-founders of Star Apple Edible + Fine Gardening, a San Francisco Bay Area landscape design firm focusing on aesthetic edible gardening. At Star Apple, they bring together ecologically sound landscape design principles and small-scale urban agriculture, working with both ornamental and edible plants to create integrated landscapes. Visit www.StarAppleEdibleGardens.com. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction Welcome to the beautiful edible garden. This is a book about edible garden design. It is also a heartfelt invitation to join us in the practice of gardening. For us, gardening is a way to connect with the land, our community, and, perhaps m
