Garden design and planning Books

Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide that gives any gardener all the information needed to make garden furnishings that are both simple and beautiful. This book includes 50 complete plans for trellises, raised beds, planters, window boxes, and just about any imaginable project you can make to train and display plants in your garden and around your home. Featured projects are created using a host of easily found materials, including wood, metal, hypertufa, upcycled barrels, clay pots, sticks, latticework, copper tubing, re-rod, wire, landscape timbers, retaining wall block, and natural stone. Each plan includes photographs, a scaled plan drawing, cutting and shopping lists, and thorough step-by-step instructions.

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Book SynopsisThis is a garden book unlike any other because it will help make your garden better. Knowing what makes gardens work, helps you understand why your garden isn't working for you. Correct what's wrong, make the right changes to improve your garden. Redesigning all or part of the garden is made simpler, know what questions need asking, avoid making mistakes and understand how to combine plants to create beautiful borders with a unique but really simple method. Learn how to ensure your garden is better at looking after itself, so your free time is not spent gardening! Lastly change some gardening habits the world no longer needs, know your garden is good for the planet too. This is a book that shows how your garden can be made better.Trade ReviewInstead of using a method common in gardening books, (find a garden you like the look of and recreate it) Rachel's book encourages inexperienced and/or reluctant gardeners to take a new approach. This book will save you money, unnecessary hard work and disappointment and will help create your perfect garden. Sarah Wilson, Roots and All; full of ideas that will provide the deep satisfaction a garden will bring. From tackling unwanted plant guests, to top tips that will aid our precious environment . . . great design advice . . . easy to read and reference and guides you gently into the art of the garden. Chris Collins,Head of Horticulture - Garden Organic and Former Head Gardener, Westminster Abbey;A cracking read . . . for new and experienced gardeners . . . an eye-opener for those with more experience . . . bursting with that rarest of things in gardening books - common sense. Mandy Watson, award winning blogger at MandyCanUDigit.comTable of ContentsAcknowledgments iv; I WANTED MY GARDEN TO BE BETTER 1; DO YOU LIKE YOUR GARDEN? 5; What stops you enjoying the garden? 6; Putting things right 16; Learn to love your garden again 20; IMPROVING THE GARDEN 22; What's the difference between a front and back garden? 22; How to make an existing border lower maintenance 26; Proper planting 34; Perfectly good pruning 38; What to do with misbehaving plants 40; HOW TO CHANGE THE GARDEN 50; Rules to remember before you do anything! 51; Designing around problems you can't change 58; First time gardeners 63; Drawing the design 70; Planting with 'boxes' 76; Garden styles and why they don't work 79; Common garden mistakes 84; HOW YOUR GARDEN CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD 113; OK, IT MIGHT NOT BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST GARDEN BUT ... 130; USEFUL STUFF TO KNOW ABOUT PLANTS 132; Designing with 'Boxes' 146; Bibliography 154; INDEX 155; AND FINALLY ... 158; ABOUT THE AUTHOR 159;

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Book SynopsisIn 1901, Thomas Mawson (1861-1933) first published 'The Art and Craft of Garden Making', now regarded as the foundation of modern landscape architecture. By 1926, it had been reprinted five times. It is this book which revealed Mawson's inspiration and gave a name to the style of work achieved by Edwin Lutyens & Gertrude Jekyll. Thomas Mawson was a prolific & influential designer who became the first president of the Institute of Landscape Architects (now Landscape Institute) in 1929. His design practice based in Windermere, in the English Lake District, prospered owing both to a wealthy clientele - brought to the area by the railway network - and to his obvious talent for design which blended architecture and horticulture. Thomas's prolific and successful career included commissions on Graythwaite Hall, Langdale Chase, Holehird, Brockhole, Holker Hall and at Rydal Hall in 1909. He also had a considerable number of projects abroad including in Canada, America and mainland Europe.

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Book SynopsisGertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was an artist, craftswoman, writer, and gardener; she is perhaps the most famous garden designers of her time. 'Gardens for Small Country Houses' was first published by Country Life in 1912, at a time when both Jekyll and Weaver were writing for the magazine. It covers the period when the Arts and Crafts Movement had evolved into country house architecture then complemented with gardens in the current style. 'Gardens for Small Country Houses' is a practical handbook which combines invaluable information on period garden design, insights into craftsmanship, planting relationships and garden restoration, and creates a fascinating and now classic text. Gertrude Jekyll's co-author, Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876-1930), was architectural editor of Country Life. He became a civil servant during the First World War (1914-1918); in 1919, he founded National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge.

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