Joe's Urban Garden Handbook [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

"Any outdoor space in an urban environment, however small, is an invaluable bonus. Here, expert garden designer Joe Swift you how to create an area that meets your entire practical and style requirements whilst making the best use of every inch of available space."

"Is your patio the size of a postage stamp?..... if this sounds like you, treat youself to this book - it's pretty extensive when it comes to explaining and inspiring. Actually, Swift's tome would be right at home on the bookshelves of the most acomplished urban gardener, too. Joe packs in loads of ideas: multi-tiered, decked, paved and dining-friendly chill out zones are all in there, as well as a really helpful guide on what to grow where."

"Joe's Urban Garden Handbook...helps readers achieve both whole garden designs and quick fixes"

"Swift...reveals his top quick tricks to reorganising the outdoor space."

"Have you got a plot the size of a postage stamp? Joe Swift comes to the resuce with his insider tips for creating your own mini paradise."

"A host of inspirational design and gardening ideas, for anyone with a small garden. yard or balcony who would like to make the most of limited space."

"For anyone with a small urban garden, yard, roof terrace or balcony, this is a fantastic guide to transforming it into a soothing contemporary space for entertainment, escape, or simply a place to be."

Any outdoor space in an urban environment, however small, is an invaluable bonus. Here, expert garden designer Joe Swift shows us how to create an area that meets all your practical and style requirements whilst making the best use of every inch of available space. Familiar to many as the co-presenter of BBC's "Gardeners World", Joe's practical and attractive ideas will enable you to create your own personal Eden. It features chapters that take you through the initial assessment and planning stages, to selecting suitable plants and hard materials, quick makeovers and year-round maintenance to keep your garden looking at its best. Joe reveals how to make the most of existing elements, how to conceal less pleasing aspects, and how to create privacy and the illusion of space so that you can make the very most of whatever space you have. And, throughout, Joe remains cost-conscious, aware that redesigning a garden can be an expensive endeavour.

Joe Swift is an expert on gardening and garden design and co-presents the extremely popular BBC s Gardeners World. He designs and builds gardens in the London area for his own company and has also been called upon to design many gardens in the UK including the water garden at King s Heath, the Bournville Garden and the Gardener s World Live show garden. Joe has been a presenter and designer on many television programmes, including Garden Invaders, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, and was design judge on the BBC s Gardener of the Year. He regularly contributes to gardening magazines and has one previously published book, The Plant Room.