Product Description

Learn to plan, build and plant your perfect garden with the experts at the RHS From how to draw a layout to explaining the best places to use lighting effects, discover how to create the garden you’ve always wanted with the RHS. Guiding you through the whole creative and gardening process, learn to visualise your ideas, choose a style, develop plans, plot, build, landscape, select the right plants, and apply the finishing touches to make your garden the ideal reflection of your tastes and creativity. A look at ‘inspirational gardens’ will give you lots of ideas for things to create. Whether you want to plan a major project or focus on a particular area, this is the complete guide: don’t design without it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2375 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

Review
attractive, easily read and useful. --The Hardy Planet, April 1, 2009

This comprehensive garden bible offers fresh and unusual ideas. --Living North, July 16, 2009

Customer Reviews

RHS Book of Garden Design
This is probably the nicest book of its kind that I have seen. The sections are more varied and informative than usual garden books of its type, and there are lots of ideas. The gardens are real and current - not photo library pictures that we have all seen in several books. I know this because our garden is featured! Well worth the money and a lovely present for people who are interested in gardens/gardening.

Encyclopedia of Garden Design - Sookie
A great book for my gardening library. Full of inspirational ideas to change an old garden or plan one from scratch. Plenty of practical guidelines and planting ideas. Definitely worth purchasing. The only
thing I felt it fell short of was more inspirational plants to use. It was more for the beginner in plant knowledge. But then I am one of those gardeners who always look for the rare or unusual to add a little more interest to my garden.

A must for the amateur and professional garden designer.
This book gives a fool-proof method of designing a garden with all you need to know as a beginner, plus great inspiration for us old-fashioned designers who still use a drawing board regarding new computer software and inspiring modern schemes that give a new slant on traditional tecniques. The format is divided into chapters on different styles plus chapters on the practical aspects. The whole book is illustrated by beautiful photographs and is both useful and entertaining.