The world's best-selling garden design book
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Introduction
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.
What does not change in this new edition is John Brookes' inspirational approach to design. Drawing on his world-famous garden design course and his lecture tours that have taken him from Kew Gardens and Europe to the USA, Austalia, South Africa, South America and Japan, he combines clever and stylish design options with detailed information and practical advice. Garden Design has become the essential coursebook for thousands of students as well as a favourite sourcebook of ideas for countless garden owners worldwide - amateurs and professionals alike.
- Guides you step-by-step through every stage from drawing up a plan, to judging scale and siting plants
- Includes helpful artworks, step-by-step photos - even the computer - to re-create a garden or start from scratch
- The essential coursebook for all aspiring garden designers, rich with originality and masterly advice.
Customer Review:Press reviews
"An exceptional book, organised with logic, written with clarity and designed with all the flair that a book on design calls out for... there are few people better qualified to write a book such as this."
Anna Pavord
"Superbly crafted, lavishly illustrated…when the book's publishers suggest it "de-mystifies the whole subject" I cannot but agree… I would expect this book to become a classic of the genre. It is exceptional value in every way."
The Sunday Telegraph
"It is to gardening what the classic Conran House Book was to decorating - an energising, panoramic, opinionated overview with lots and lots of illustrations, and bristling with ideas."
Miranda Innes - Country Living
"Combines clever and stylish design options with detailed information and practical advice, taking you through every stage from measuring your garden and drawing up a plan to judging scale, using pattern, and siting plants."
Manchester Evening News
"This book can teach us all about how we can design our gardens better."
Garden News
"The world's bestselling garden design book, and rightly so, packed with all you need from the ABC of design to detailed sections on The Grassy Look or A Garden of Rooms."
The Guardian
"Inspirational and thorough, it is probably the most comprehensive and accessible guide to fashioning your own (or someone else's) plot currently available."
Country Life
Product details
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780751309812
Size: 230 x 260mm
Number of pages: 384
Publication date: 05 Apr 2001
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
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