A collection of garden designs to suit a range of styles, tastes and pockets, this guide provides varied designs from a low-cost family garden to a town garden for entertaining, each accompanied by a full planting plan.
A collection of garden designs to suit a range of styles, tastes and pockets, this guide provides varied designs from a low-cost family garden to a town garden for entertaining, each accompanied by a full planting plan.
This text is a guide to constructing and cultivating ones own Japanese garden. The book provides the basics behind each design and structure, revealing the significance behind elements such as fences, rocks, buildings, and ornaments, as well as suggestions on what plants to use.
Drawing on the examples of the Alhambra, Generalife and the Shalimar Gardens, this practical book explains how to design and make an Islamic garden. It suggests ways of incorporating the principal features of water, shade, scent and colour and advises on planting schemes.
As good design is the key to a successful garden, this book has collected some of the best of todays structural garden plans, providing practical solutions for sites of varying size and shape in both town and country. It features over 150 structural garden plans divided into thematic chapters.
Hessenberg looks at the wide range of ceramics - pots, statues, tiles, fountains - that can be used in gardens and landscape design and discusses the problems inherent in the making of them for outdoors - installation, weatherproofing, vandalism while still producing attractive pieces of work.
Offers possibilities to transform your garden, whether you want to make it feel bigger, prevent it feeling overlooked or want great looking plants all year round. It includes advice on everything from complex landscaping to pruning old trees, as well as explaining when you might need expert help and what to ask for when you do.
