Get rid of your lawn and recreate the whole appearance of your home! This book includes overall planning and design ideas, and outlines the steps for removing the grass, enriching the soil and planting new flowers and shrubs.

This reference work is for anyone wanting to improve their garden. Design solutions are presented along with practical information enabling you to create a garden that looks and works as you want it to. It covers essential gardens, exterior design, living space, planting design and techniques.

Introduces a movement in landscape gardening - one in which we undergo a personal journey as we create our very own dream garden. This guide provides practical information and advice on various aspects of actually creating your unique garden - from inspecting soil and studying the light to real hands-in-the-dirt planting.

A guide to using colour in the garden. It discusses the ways to put colour together, and demonstrates the power of colour to change the sense of space, to suggest coolness and warmth and to evoke different moods. Illustrated plant directories provide cultivation details for over 850 plants.

This text contains the essence of Thomas Church's design philosophy, as well as practical advice. It is illustrated by site plans and photographs of some of the 2000 gardens that Church designed during his career.

This manual is about the role of colour in the making of gardens. It demonstrates how Gertrude Jekyll composed inspired garden pictures, which, with their closely-related colour patterns and subtle gradations of hue, were a major influence on the development of English garden design.