Product Description

This work includes ingenious solutions for creating small, secluded gardens for outdoor living; gives blueprints for designing, building and decorating a courtyard including barbecues, water features & decking; shows how to bring a courtyard alive with detailed planting blueprints; and is written by an eminent and best selling author. "Courtyard Gardens" is packed with imaginative ideas for creating small, secluded gardens for outdoor living. Whether you are starting with a new plot or transforming an existing garden into a private haven, this books offers a wealth of design and planting solutions. This book features 18 three dimensional plans for classic garden styles that can be adopted for all different sizes and uses, from the classical garden through renaissance courtyards and Mediterranean styles to classical Japanese gardens. The book contains hundreds of ideas for wall. Screens, floors, water features and lighting as well as a directory to plants give guidance on the best type of plants for different types of garden.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115890 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Toby Musgrave is a garden designer, horticulturist, garden historian and TV presenter with a passion for applying lessons from the past to today's gardens.

Customer Reviews

Courtyard Gardens
This book was full of good ideas for small spaces, and was diviided up into differing themes with appropriate planting ideas. I bought this book for a friend who is new to gardening and he was delighted with it as it gave him plenty of ideas of what to do with the outside space in his new house.

Lovely book...
Lovely book with excellent photographs and illustrations of some stunningly beautiful and imaginatively 'gardened' courtyards - not quite what I wanted, I realised after I received it, because all the courtyards are considerably larger than the one I need to improve but, nevertheless, the book contains some useful ideas that with a bit of imagination can be adapted to a smaller space and, because of the quality of the photographs and illustrations plus the planting suggestions as to species and growth, is worth keeping. I would definitely recommend it to anyone with a sizeable courtyard to develop.