An informative study of planting theory and practice. Beginning with the building blocks of planting design, it illustrates some of the huge choice in terms of form, texture and colour. It includes a chapter that explains, with the use of planting plans and diagrams, how to combine these basic elements to create sculptural planting schemes.

A practical guide to gardening. From gardening techniques, planning and maintenance to growing plants, fruits or vegetables, it provides an advice to create a thriving garden. It contains various styles, plants and the developments in horticulture, including organic gardening and the effects of global warming.

Helps you learn how to grow vegetables from seed, maintain mature plants, keep the pests at bay and produce a sustainable crop in your vegetable garden. This work includes advice on feeding, watering and combating pests, weeds and diseases. It offers practical tips on preparing and improving soil.

Looks at plants from a designer's perspective and emphasizes the important roles of plant shape. This book reviews fine art principles and shows how they can be successfully applied to plant compositions by grouping plants into three heights: ground to knee, knee to navel, and navel to crown.

Shows how to have a low-maintenance garden that doesn't sacrifice style. This book shows you how to garden in a whole new way - it shows you, through profiles and beautiful photographs of real gardens that embody low-maintenance techniques.

Shows how to create the garden you've always wanted. This book lets you visualize your ideas, choose a style, develop plans, plot, build, landscape, select the right plants, and apply the finishing touches to make your garden a reflection of your tastes and creativity.

Suitable for gardeners who are passionate about plants of various kinds, this book offers information on design and connoisseur plants. It includes topics such as site evaluation, color theory, and planning for maintenance.

Covers various equipments and ingredients needed to carry out the wide range of tasks in your garden in step-by-step photographs and thorough instructions. This title also includes choosing a style, drawing up plans, and selecting plants and features.

The great head gardeners of Victorian and Edwardian Britain enjoyed a status and an importance that extended far beyond the walled frontiers of their fiefdoms. They wrote bestselling books and published the first gardening magazines. This title presents a study of the great Victorian and Edwardian head gardeners.

Guides the reader through various stages of planning a garden - how to survey a site, how to choose landscaping materials, and how to develop planting schemes. This second edition features US case studies and photographs. It includes tips on green gardening such as how to harvest rainwater, how to design a green roof, and a guide to composting.

An easy-to-follow guide on how to garden that helps you to find various things you need to know from bulbs to borders and weeds to watering, gardening techniques, practical basics, and simple skills. It also helps to find out the principles of good of gardening - how plants work and how to give them what they need.

Beatrix Farrand was a premier landscape designer during the golden age of American estate building in the 1920s and 1930s.

Creating Contemporary Gardens.

Offering a fresh approach to planning and planting a garden, this guide shows how to throw caution to the wind and orchestrate colours, textures, scale and scent to spectacular effect from spring until autumn.

Japanese stone gardens provide tranquil settings where visitors can shed the burdens and stresses of modern existence, satisfy an age-old yearning for solitude and repose, experience the restorative power of art and nature. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful mystique and dynamism of Japanese stone gardens.

Provides 40 garden designs to create your garden with the minimum of fuss, time and effort.

Offers a guide to the world of garden design, packed with expert advice that shows you exactly where to put your patio and plant your perennials. This title provides a comprehensive plant directory, a selection of garden features and over 600 beautiful colour photographs, plans and drawings.

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.

A practical illustrated garden design course that goes from the basics of simple surveying, through the author's celebrated use of a design grid, to detailed styling and planting design.

An important new history on this central gardening theme, illustrated throughout with colour photography and archive illustrations.