The Ultimate Garden DesignerCreating a beautiful garden has never been easier! Tim Newbury--a three-time gold medal winner at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show--has come up with more than 100 superb designs to suit every taste, plot, and pocket. There are old-fashioned charming cottage gardens, Japanese-style gardens, and water and woodland gardens. Some are formal, others are coastal, and one is even on a rooftop. Construct gardens for the kitchen, entertaning the flower enthusiast, and the entire family. A vast selection of features from pools to patios, a comprehensive plant directory, and more than 600 photographs, watercolors, plans, and drawings make this the next best thing to hiring a garden designer to do the work. |
Contents
Preface | 6 |
Cottage Gardens | 15 |
Kitchen Gardens | 29 |
Gardens for Entertaining | 39 |
Family Gardens | 53 |
Gardens for the Disabled | 63 |
Plant Enthusiasts Gardens | 77 |
Water Gardens | 91 |
Wildlife Gardens | 149 |
Woodland Gardens | 159 |
Front Gardens | 169 |
Roof Gardens | 179 |
Pools Streams and Water Features | 190 |
Pergolas and Arches | 198 |
Patios and Paving | 206 |
Walls and Fences | 214 |
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Acer palmatum arbour Aster amellus Aurea autumn Blue boundary Clematis climbers colour COMPOST corner Cornus alba Cotoneaster create curving DECK DESIGN VARIATIONS edge Elaeagnus Erica Euonymus fortunei evergreen fences flags flowers foliage Fuchsia magellanica full sun garden design gazebo Geranium gravel Hebe Hedera helix Height herbs Hosta Hydrangea Hydrangea serrata Ilex aquifolium Iris Jasminum Juniperus KEY TO PLANTING kitchen garden late spring Lavandula angustifolia lawn leaves light shade Lonicera main patio Miscanthus sinensis NARROW PLOT ornamental patio area paved area perennials pergola Phormium Pink planting distance pool pots Prunus Purpurea raised bed reasonable soil rock Rosa ROSE ARCH ROTARY CLOTHES LINE screen SEAT SHALLOW PLOT shape SHED shrubs side Silver sitting area Skimmia japonica slope Sorbus space stems STEPPING STONES summer summerhouse Taxus baccata terrace Three-dimensional view timber trees trellis TRIANGULAR PLOT Variegata Viburnum Viburnum x bodnantense Vitis vinifera wall WATER FEATURE Weigela florida well-drained soil