- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Mitchell Beazley (5 April 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845333721
- ISBN-13: 978-1845333720
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #27 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Garden Styles > Urban Gardens
- #53 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Landscape Gardening
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The book is divided into three main sections. "Assessing Your Needs" encourages the reader to focus on their requirements and to determine their priorities in terms of making the most of their space. "Solutions by Area" looks at a range of different spaces from balconies to basements, rooftops to courtyards, and highlights the particular considerations of each. This chapter also illustrates inspiring design ideas, always focusing on the practical, for example, 'Do you want to make the most of your view or do you need to screen off an eyesore?'. "Design Details" focuses on elements such as walls, flooring, lighting, and furniture. Feature boxes and text offer design advice and planting suggestions, and clarify what is achievable through DIY and what needs a professional. They also include low-maintenance and drought-friendly ideas.
About the Author
Andy Sturgeon is one of the country's leading garden designers whose modern designs are a fusion of traditional materials and contemporary styling. A Chelsea gold-medal winner, Andy worked at The RHS Gardens Wisley and as a landscape gardener before graduating from the Welsh College of Horticulture in 1987. He has since been a freelance garden designer with his projects frequently featured on television, in magazines and national newspapers at home and overseas. Andy has been included in House and Garden magazine's exclusive list of the top 50 designers in Britain and his work is also featured in BBC2's Small Town Gardens series. He presented BBC's Chelsea coverage for three years in a row, and for several years was the resident gardener on GMTV. Andy is a garden writer for the Guardian and was previously columnist with the Daily Mail, Daily Express and Sunday Times.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The author and garden designer behind this book is one of the most inspirational designers I know of, and also very good about putting his ideas and thinking into words and getting those ideas across to the lay reader. I was very pleased to have ordered this book, as I am in the process of having to downsize from a fairly large rural garden to a much smaller plot in the middle of the city and needed to start feeling inspired and motivated! This book did exactly that. Great images, and really good descriptions of the various garden designs included (by Andy and others) to really understand their layout and details - as well as more general chapters about materials and ways to think about areas of garden usage. The one negative point I have with the book really must come down to the publishers - there are several really serious typos in the text - in several places the image captions are attached to the wrong images, which gets very confusing - and in one section about one of Andy Sturgeon's garden designs the first half of his text about the design is repeated twice across two pages, and the second half of his text is completely missing. This is seriously annoying as the design he was writing about is my favourite in the whole book and I now only know half of what he wanted to say about it! Infuriating, and such a shame that such a good book from such an important designer has been treated in such a slipshod manner.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Although the majority of the content of this book is excellent, it is very badly edited with quite a few photographs mis-labelled and some pages repeated.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is one of the best ones that I have bought in the last few years. Yes, there are some errors that are exasperating but, that would be down to the editors and not the author. It is full of ideas that appeal to me. Excellent book Andy. I would recommend it.Big Plans, Small Gardens: Inspirational Ideas. Practical designs, Ways to Maximize Space
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