Product Description

Provides a complete introduction to garden planning and design. This book includes design principles and drawing up a plan, garden styles, structures, focal points, horizontal surfaces, vertical elements, water features, rock and alpine gardens, lighting, ornaments and containers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42108 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Great, but meant for larger gardens only
This is a really good book in that it explains exactly how to start a garden; either from scratch or improving on an existing one. It is in effect a short course in landscape architecture. But, it does not give much attention to smaller gardens. Because the problems you face planning a small garden are very different from the ones adressed here, I recommend you find a specialized book for that. If you have a large garden, this is ideal! Miellyn

Good guide to the topic
Excellent book. Its written like a professional guide, very informative and no-nonsense, with plenty of detail on topics like how to cope with exposed sites, or how to draw up a map of the garden.

Much of the information is only of use if you are fortune enough to have a large garden, however.