Garden planning & design

Every garden benefits from careful planning, good design and those all-important beautiful details. This superb handbook offers original plans for over 50 gardens, grouped into the most popular tranquil Japanese gardens, low-maintenance gardens, kitchen gardens, rock and water gardens, wildlife gardens, patios, courtyards and terraces.A wide variety of shapes and sizes is taken into L-shaped or sloping, patio or roof gardens, small or large – and all are shown with innovative ideas for making the most of your garden.Alongside the plans are practical step-by-step photographs showing how to achieve certain elements in the design, such as laying gravel, maintaining container plants in peak condition and constructing a decorative trellis.The second part of this book shows how home decorating principles can be applied to an outside space with wonderful results. There are innovative treatments and step-by-step projects for decorative garden and patio floors, as well as paint and plaster effects for walls and fences, ideas for decorative window boxes, hanging baskets and containers.Packed with hundreds of photographs, clear advice and inspirational projects, this comprehensive guide is an ideal source of ideas for anyone wishing to design, transform and enhance their garden.