Well-Designed Garden

by JohnBrookes (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.25

  This is the most authoritative and inspiring source of garden design knowledge, ideas and advice. Author of Small Garden , John Brookes draws on 40 years of gardening expertise and shows you how to be creative in your garden. Find out how to make any outside space beautiful, from looking at enclosures like walls, boundaries and fences, to creative structures including arbours and arches to the scale, form or colour your plants should follow. Using inspiring photographs, annotated sketches and diagrams John shows you how to turn theory into reality in your space, drawing on his own work and the best of other designers. 'Britain's most talented and esteemed garden designer' - The Observer .

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $4.20

  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 Key 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.