Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33820 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

love or hate his work, he is logical in his approch
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.

Unusual for Diarmuid
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