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All the essentials of garden design that will help readers achieve their dream gardens
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Covers everything from the initial planning of your garden on paper to how to make your design a reality with planting, laying and construction guides. This single book will tell you everything you could need to know to achieve your ideal garden.
Includes:
* how to assess your site, create a style and source materials
* advice on planting schemes and achieving year-round interest
* tips on working with design principles such as scale, proportion and balance
* simple instructions for hard landscaping
Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to create and maintain your dream garden.
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82 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When I first saw this book, I thought it was going to be a re-packaged chunk from "How to be a Gardener", especially as it's also out of the BBC Books stable. How wrong I was.
This guide to garden design might be relatively thin in its number of pages when compared to other garden design books (which tend to weigh in at the heavier end of the scale), but it's pitched just right for anyone with a blank canvas or major garden re-vamp on their hands and struggling to know just where to start.
The first part of the book deals with the principles of design such as site survey and levels, but also including a look at particular styles such as cottage gardens. A quick guide to hard landscaping techniques then follows, though anyone contemplating a major hardscaping project may need much more detail or the services of a professional in order to ensure success. Just under half of the book is devoted to plants - designing with them, planting for the seasons and solutions for particular areas such as shade, damp, dry and windy.
About a third of each double page spread is devoted to photographs and line drawings to both inspire and inform, thus making a book that is packed with information and ideas.
This guide to garden design might be relatively thin in its number of pages when compared to other garden design books (which tend to weigh in at the heavier end of the scale), but it's pitched just right for anyone with a blank canvas or major garden re-vamp on their hands and struggling to know just where to start.
The first part of the book deals with the principles of design such as site survey and levels, but also including a look at particular styles such as cottage gardens. A quick guide to hard landscaping techniques then follows, though anyone contemplating a major hardscaping project may need much more detail or the services of a professional in order to ensure success. Just under half of the book is devoted to plants - designing with them, planting for the seasons and solutions for particular areas such as shade, damp, dry and windy.
About a third of each double page spread is devoted to photographs and line drawings to both inspire and inform, thus making a book that is packed with information and ideas.
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Need this one for the course I'm taking. Would recommend it to anyone, from beginners upwards. Really like it and will probably use it as reference for years!
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very useful book for small gardens. The plant lists are particularly handy. The book is well laid out, well illustrated and is easy reading. I liked it
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