Product Gallery - Gardening Books - Design & Planning

The Essential Garden Design Workbook

Rosemary Alexander - Timber Press - November 2004 - Hardcover - List Price £19.99

This book is tailormade for hands-on gardeners who want to rework their gardens to achieve that sought-after 'designer finish'. Hundreds of explanatory drawings and quick-reference diagrams make this workbook a vital addition to the bookshelves of every gardener, design student, and professional. A designer garden is within everyone's reach!

The Garden Planner

Robin Williams - Frances Lincoln Publishers - March 1998 - Paperback - List Price £10.99

This handbook reveals the secrets of professional garden design, and then makes them accessible to everyone, from the keen gardener to the complete beginner. The book contains designs for gardens of all shapes and sizes, providing practical solutions for varying sites, circumstances and needs. With colour plans.

John Brookes Garden Design (Revised)

John Brookes - Dorling Kindersley - April 2001 - Hardcover - List Price £25.00

In this expanded, updated version of his classic book, John Brookes adresses the latest trends in garden design as well as surveying new materials and techniques. He also shows you how to use the computer as a design tool, and features new, or extended, sections on key styles, such as Minimalist, Mediterranean, Urban and Japanese and Oriental.

RHS Essential Garden Planning & Construction

Christopher Brickell - Mitchell Beazley - April 2006 - Paperback - List Price £16.99

The definitive step-by-step guide to selecting and building a wide range of garden structures. It also provides all the key information needed for planning the design and constructing your garden. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations make even quite complex projects straightforward and easy to accomplish.

RHS Really Small Gardens

Jill Billington - Quadrille Publishing - April 2006 - Paperback - List Price £9.99

"Really Small Gardens" is the essential guide to making a success of a compact garden space. The book contains over 250 photographs of truly small gardens and is packed full of invaluable advice on initial planning and choices, ways of exploiting the space, and suggestions for evoking a particular atmosphere.

Design Your Garden

Diarmuid Gavin - Penquin Books- May 2004- Hardcover - List Price £16.99

Today's most innovative garden designer, Diarmuid Gavin, shares advice, inspiration and ideas on how to design your garden. Diarmuid's ten, easy-to-follow, practical steps cover everything from the basics of good design, to assessing your plot and using plants for style and effect. his practical guide will give you the confidence to create your own unique style.

Gertrude Jekyll's Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden (New Ed)

Gertrude Jekyll - Frances Lincoln Publishers - June 2001- Paperback - List Price £15.99

This manual is about the role of colour, in relation to other attributes of plants, 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.

The Bold and Brilliant Garden

Sarah Raven - Frances Lincoln Publishers- May 2001 - Paperback - List Price £15.99

This work offers a new approach to planning and planting. It shows how to throw caution to the wind and orchestrate colours, textures, scale and scent to spectacular effect from spring until autumn. The key is colour: intense, strong and voluptuous - deep crimsons combined with acid green and incandescent orange, for example.

Small Garden

John Brookes - Dorling Kindersley - March 2006 - Hardcover - List Price £16.99

From initial inspiration to final layout, create your own small garden with the help of gardening design expert John Brookes. Whether you want a room outside' for leisure and entertainment or simply a space to call your own, inspiring photographs and detailed diagrams show, what you can achieve from grassy lawn to balcony, roof terrace, or passageway

The Water Gardener

Anthony Archer-Wills - Frances Lincoln Publishers - April 2000 - Paperback - List Price £16.99

A reference for all water gardeners, whether amateur or professional. From building a wall fountain or installing a pond to replanting a stream, it features technical advice and drawings, steering the reader around the pitfalls. Areas covered include: designing a full range of water features, including fountains, ponds, bog gardens, streams and leisure pools.