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City Garden

City Garden

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

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

Do you yearn for a tranquil retreat in busy surroundings, a healing sanctuary, or a convenient stage for entertaining, dining and family gatherings? A garden in town can provide any or all of these. City Garden explores the challenges and the advantages of gardening in built-up surroundings and shows you how to make the most of your urban space.



Andi Clevely provides clear guidance on such essentials as: organizing ground space; being inventive with levels; steps, slopes, shelves, balconies and hanging gardens; enhancing the view; making use of borrowed features; real and false perspectives; storage and utilities; plants and planting; making the most of the increased warmth and shelter offered by a garden in town.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 112
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 28 Mar 2008
ISBN 10: 0711227853
ISBN 13: 9780711227859

Media Reviews
Aimed principally at amateurs, it nevertheless contains a wealth of inspiration for the professional designer, including ways to adapt the 'borrowed' landscape to make the most of views, and how to exploit perspective. There's plenty of excellent photography to show to clients in order for them to get a feel for their preferred style. The text will even reaffirm their decision to call you in, as the author helpfully mentions how useful it can be to employ a designer in a challenging space. Garden Design Journal If I had been given this book for Christmas when I was new to gardening and planning my first city garden, I would have been delighted. Cottage Gardener A short and snappy introduction to city-garden design for beginners. The author's expertise is expressed in a clear and practical manner. His obvious enthusiasm has some appeal for those urbanites who want a simple initiation into the complexities of city-garden design. Garden
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.