Today's most innovative garden designer, Diarmuid Gavin, shares advice, inspiration and ideas on how to design your garden. Diarmuid's ten, easy-to-follow, practical steps cover everything from the basics of good design, to assessing your plot and using plants for style and affect. This practical guide will give you the confidence to create and express your own unique style, whatever your garden space.
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Diarmuid Gavin is the award-winning master of influential, hi-tech garden design. Best known for co-hosting BBC2's Home Front and presenting BBC2's coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Gardener's World Live, he is also a successful author. This is his second title for DK. Diarmuid lives in London.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
By S. M. Ensell
Format:Hardcover
This book works because not only is it logical in its approch, but it systematically covers all the bases. From understanding what you 'want' from your garden, then step by step bringing it to life on the page, a great starters book. As a landscaper myself I particually found the chapters on line and shape, and balance and proportion the most helpful, this is the one aspect that can make or break a garden, its worth getting it right on paper first. Love or hate Diarmuid, his design principles are sound, and in my opinion he's taking garden design and construction to the next level.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Similar to some of the other reviews for this book, I was pleasantly surprised by this garden design book by Diarmuid Gavin. I am currently attempting to self design a garden for my newly built home and wanted a book that was step by step, based on design principles (the kind of things the experts would have been taught in college, but maybe don't want the ordinary folk to find out) and not too over the top in terms of being 'different' or 'creative'. I was afraid there would be a lot of 'lollypop' gardens and not enough of the 'normal' stuff. And so, I was pleasantly surprised and would go so far as to say impressed with everything about this book. As the title suggests, it is set out in ten managable steps (each a design stage) giving you just enough descriptive text, drawings and photos to show the various options you might chose to obtain the 'style' you are looking for. There was sufficient detail for me about plants as I wanted to get the layout right first, before chosing what to put in the beds and borders (and there are plenty of books dedicated to plant choice). I think this would be an excellent reference book for someone like me who has an interest in gardening and is not afraid to do it themselves, but wants to get the basics of design right from the start. When my garden is designed and beautiful in a few years!, I expect I will use this as a reference book as it's great to flick through, in addition to being a good text book.
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By Keith Marley
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This is a book that this book actually show you ideas for your garden and is not just full of over the top flambuoyant unpractical designs as he has become known for, well worth the price, nice to see him designing for the normal persons garden
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Great Book
My daughter has found this book very useful in completing her assignments, she is doing a level 3 horticultural course at college
Published 12 days ago by Green wellise
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I bought this book as I am redesigning my garden in the spring. Good ideas and photos. Will be a great help.
Published 3 months ago by forzarobur
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Excellent book; takes you step by step through the process of garden design I work as proffessional and I really like the way to present pictures and information . Read more
Published 15 months ago by alu
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disappointed
If you have a large stack of cash this book might help. But for those on a limited budget and plot size the ideas are way to expensive / large. Read more
Published 16 months ago by BARBARA
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First class
Arrived prompt, packed well and in good condition, it was for a gift for a person who is about to design their garden for a new house and very much appreciate.
Published 16 months ago by shrew
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BRILLIANT FOR PLANNING STAGES OF A NEW GARDEN
BEAUTIFUL GARDEN PHOTO'S AND QUIRKY IDEAS,JUST WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM DIARMUID.PERFECTLY SUITED TO HELP YOU PLAN A GARDEN FROM SCRATCH. Read more
Published 21 months ago by TROY
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Step by step garden design
Bought to help me find inspiration to design a large garden from a completely blank canvas. Excellent book; takes you step by step through the process of garden design without... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2011 by KAnon
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nice book
This is a good book with some nice ideas. The construction of the book is nice and good glossy pages. Read more
Published on 21 May 2009 by A. Mattu
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