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Chapter 1: Slipping and Sliding to the
Starting line
Why and how to use reclaimed materials in the garden
Chapter 2: the goodS and Where to get themWhere to source reclaimed materials and how to see their beauty
Chapter 3: more than Your handS alone
The tools necessary to complete the projects
Chapter 4: Walk on thiS
Tips and designs or pathways
Chapter 5: making good neighborS
How to design and build encing
Chapter 6: arborS and other over-the-top
ideaSBuilding structures that provide shade
Chapter 7: Contain YourSelf
Design and create your own containers
Chapter 8: Sitting thiS one out
Functional seating in the garden
Chapter 9: a Candle againSt the night
Creative lighting projects
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The use o reclaimed materials in outdoor spaces is by no means a
new practice. Examples run throughout the history o landscaping
and gardening. A column borrowed rom a temple here, a ountain
lited rom some exotic palace over there, and violaits a clas-
sic. Today this is the most recognized orm o reuse in the garden,
because contemporary practice or the most part still ollows the
old ideas. To confrm this, one has only to look at all the designs
eatured in the contemporary press that incorporate pavilions, stat-
uary, and urnishings rom one exotic locale or another.
Slipping and Sliding to the Starting line
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Most gardeners rely on o-the-shel solutions when it comes to materials.
You can select a period or locale, then go out and buy everything you need
to t that look, all laid out or you in neat little rows. The advantage is that
the materials are uniorm, readily available, and easily specied. The disad-
vantage is that the materials uniormity, availability, and prebuilt specics
are likely to stop cold any real exploration o material possibilities that might
lie beyond the supply stores shelves.
a neW World of poSSibilitieS
Any gardener who has ever been in want o a fowerpot has crossed paths
with choice. There are so many pots to choose rom, so many shapes and
sizes. All those pretty things lined up on the nursery shelves, begging to be
taken home and ound useul. My advice is let them lie, let the dust settle on
them, or there is a whole world o other orms to be ound. To unlock that
world, the key is reuse o the materials that are local to you.What is a fowerpot but a hole with a bottom and sides? Through reuse
a great many things can t that description. Take, or example, an empty
toolbox. Is it not a hole with a bottom and sides? Will the dirt know the
dierence? But why use a toolbox? More to the point, why not? Toolboxes
are built to be sturdy; they are oten colorul and can be had or a pittance
at any garage sale.
As the toolbox example illustrates, when I say reuse, I am not reerring to
the worn-thin conventions o a shabbiness made chic by repetition, wheredistressed nish and rustication, either original or manuactured, swayed
the day. I am talking about the contemporary practice o reuse that embraces
exploration o materials and how those materials can and do aect the
spaces we build.
ABOVE LEFT A selection o plants and
toolboxes stand ready to assemble
into planters. RIGHTHoles have been
drilled in the bottom o the toolbox
or drainage.
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WhY reuSe?
Reused materials are generally not standard in size or in practice and there-
ore can be perceived as hard to use, dicult to speciy, and inecient.
So why bother to explore the world o contemporary reuse! You may nd
yoursel motivated by economic, aesthetic, or environmental reasonsor an
amalgam o the three.
ABOVE LEFTToolbox planters, flled
with planting mix, await plants.
RIGHT We set the tallest plants in the
toolboxes frst. BELOW Our planters
are complete.
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diSCover the neWeStgarden deSign trend
about the authorA pioneer in the art o using recycled materials in cutting-edge garden
design, mattheW leveSQueis the program director and master o
recycled art at the nonproft San Francisco company Building Resources
and the Red Shovel Glass Company. He has appeared on HGTV, the
Discovery Channel, the San Francisco CBS afliate, and other local
broadcasts.
publiCitY & promotion
pss cc: [email protected] Online marketing campaign
National publicity
West Coast author events
T IMBER PRESS 133 SW Second Ave, Ste 450 Portland, OR 97204 503-227-2878 fax: 503-227-3070 www.timberpress.com
Timber Press books are distributed in the gift and book trade by Workman Publishing.
Please see sales representative to order, or call 800-722-7202.
Discovering new uses or what you already
have or what you discover in the salvage yard
is truly living local. From making pathways out
o scrap wood and metal to creating garden
lights rom discarded indoor fxtures, Found
Hardscapeeatures dozens o garden projects
and inspirational ideas or taking advantage o
salvaged materials ound in the home, junkyard,
or thrit store.
found hardscapeIDEAS FOR REPURPOSING MATERIALS TO CREATE
CONTAINERS, PATHWAYS, LIGHTING, AND MORE
ISBN: 978-0-88192-997-3, $22.95
Paperback, 192 pp, full color throughout
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