Concrete is not just for roads and pavements! Look at concrete in a completely different way as you create everything from bookends to a Venetian bench. It's a diverse material that can be formed, carved and modelled, as well as beautifully enhanced by colour, mosaics and embedded designs. - Concrete Basics - Mixing Concrete - Custom Recipes - Simple Casting - - Construction Techniques - Carving .

Planning Planting Building. A landscaping guide, which shows you what you need to know transform your yard. With over 700 photographs and 100 step-by-step projects, it teaches you how to improve grading, plant successfully, build a deck, and more. It also includes a plant encyclopaedia with 95 plant photographs.

This revised edition explains the basic principles of garden design in accessible language with useful artworks and diagrams. It provides ideas, as well as practical, step-by-step information for re-designing your garden or creating it from scratch.

Guides homeowners through each step of dry-laid stonework. Have a sloped garden? This work helps you to build a retaining wall with built-in benches and flowers growing out through the stone joints. Crave the soothing sound of water? Try the waterfall project constructed with two stone-lined pools.

In this volume Rosemary Verey takes the reader on a personal tour of her garden at Barnsley House, Gloucestershire. She discusses her learning process in making it - including not only successes but also changes as the garden evolved - and covers different gardening skills.