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Patios

Patios

by Andi Clevely (Author), Andi Clevely (Author), Steven Wooster (Photographer)

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    Hardcover 2007

    $4.62
Synopsis

A patio offers all sorts of possibilities: a place for sitting out or entertaining, a place for retreat or a party, a place to enjoy plants. Almost any garden, however small, can accommodate a patio and this book tells you how you can have one.



Considering the range of possible styles and all the practical options, Andi Clevely helps you lay first your plans and then your patio, whether it be paved with stone, decked with timber or adorned with pebbles. Ideas for lighting, furniture, heating and eating help you turn the structure into an inviting outdoor room.



He then describes suitable plants for different situations and to create different moods - cool and refreshing white and silver plants for sunny sites, foliage plants for shade, tropical plants for an exotic feel - showing the variety of ways in which plants in beds, crevices or containers can complete a patio by providing it with structure, colour, texture and seasonal change.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 112
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 01 Mar 2007
ISBN 10: 0711226423
ISBN 13: 9780711226425

Media Reviews
[A] clear and easy to follow guide. Lady The simplicity of this read and clear layout means that there is no reason except affluence stopping your patio ideas being put into action. So go outside and get creative. Ireland's Homes, Interiors and Living Magazine
Author Bio
Andi Clevely has spent thirty-five years as a working gardener. After taking a degree in English at Oxford he began his gardening career on the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park. Thereafter he was for many years employed as head gardener in private service (initially for J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes). He now lives in Wales, where he writes about gardening and tends his own hillside garden. His many books include Patios, Water in the Garden, City Garden, Plants in Pots and the bestselling Allotment Garden. As a journalist he writes regularly for The Garden, Homes and Gardens, The Field and BBC Gardener's World Magazine. In 2003 he won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for Practical Journalist of the Year.

Award-winning photographer Steven Wooster specializes in the photography of gardens and plants. He lives in London.