Planning Your Garden : A Practical Guide to Designing and Planting Your Garden

by McHoy, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780754801184
• ISBN10: 0754801187
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Planning a garden can be a difficult and time-consuming affair when tackled without a little guidance or good advice. This beautiful book, written in response to this common dilemma by a highly experienced gardener, guides readers through the planning stages of gardening with practical thoughts on equipment needed, sketching preliminary ideas, measuring sites, enriching the earth, and cleverly managing awkwardly shaped areas of land.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(8)
Garden Planning Made Easy	8	(22)
Taking Stock	10	(1)
Surveying and Measuring	11	(1)
Putting the Plan on Paper	12	(2)
Creating your Design	14	(2)
Basic Patterns	16	(2)
Formal and Informal	18	(2)
Unusual Shapes	20	(2)
Coping with Slopes	22	(2)
Front Gardens	24	(2)
Creating Illusions	26	(2)
Preparing a Planting Plan	28	(2)
Well-Planned Gardens	30	(30)
Inspirational Ideas	32	(4)
Beautiful Boundaries	36	(2)
Integrating the Practicalities	38	(2)
Creating Illusions	40	(2)
Using Verticals	42	(2)
Beautiful Basement	44	(2)
A Private Garden	46	(2)
Ways with Walls	48	(2)
Urban Elegance	50	(2)
Simple Shapes	52	(2)
Creating Focal Points	54	(2)
Neat Cornering	56	(2)
Plants for Small Gardens	58	(2)
Patios, Balconies and Roof Gardens	60	(34)
Inspirational Ideas	62	(4)
Somewhere to Sit	66	(2)
A Suitable Position	68	(2)
Eating Out	70	(2)
Looking Down	72	(2)
Sophisticated Courtyard	74	(2)
Surrounded by Fragrance	76	(2)
On the Roof	78	(2)
Centre of Attraction	80	(2)
Elegant Formality	82	(2)
Outdoor Entertaining	84	(2)
Simple Elegance	86	(2)
An Enchanted Jungle	88	(2)
A Secret Garden	90	(2)
Plants for Patios, Balconies and Roof Gardens	92	(2)
Index	94	(2)
Acknowledgements	96