RHS How To Create Your Garden

Frost, Adam

£20.00

Regardless of your experience or budget, with Adam’s help and know-how you can design your dream garden, whether it’s a small urban garden, a classic cottage garden, a suburban front garden, a low-maintenance space or a city roof terrace. His practical, no-nonsense approach strips away complex garden design concepts and focuses on your needs and preferred garden style to help you plan and build a garden that works for you. Learn how to design a garden that reflects your practical needs, lifestyle, budget, personality, soil, and climate. Build it yourself following the clear, uncomplicated step-by-step instructions that show you everything from laying turf to terraces, planting trees or building a raised bed or water feature. Enjoy it month by month with his simple checklist of what to do when to keep your garden in shape.

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Publish Date: 04/04/2019
ISBN: 9780241332313 Category: Tag:

Description

“Creating a garden doesn’t need to be complicated.” This is the promise from Adam Frost, BBC Gardeners’ World presenter and winner of multiple Chelsea Flower Show gold medals.

Create your dream garden with a practical, uncomplicated approach to gardening that suits your lifestyle, personality, and budget!

Whether you have a small garden in the city or have hundreds of acres in the countryside, you can create an idyllic garden in whatever setting you choose with this gardening guide.

This clear and practical gardening book will show you how to easily design a garden that reflects your practical needs, lifestyle, budget, personality, soil, and climate. Here’s what you’ll find inside:

– Work through Q&A sessions, build mood boards and plant lists, and develop the essential skills to design, plot, and shape your space
– Step-by-step photography shows you the techniques you need to build your garden – all the hard-landscaping skills you might need, such as building a brick wall, laying paving or decking, or installing fencing or a water feature
– You are shown how those skills can be applied to different garden projects, from creating a seating area to building a simple water feature. You can mix and match projects according to your available space, tailor them to your climate and soil type, and gradually build your perfect garden, bit by bit
– A month-by-month guide shows you how to enjoy your garden space and checklists helps you with easy garden maintenance and development

Designing your garden shouldn’t be a daunting task. This gardening book will help you understand your space so you can create something that works for you – your time constraints, your budget, your family requirements, the sort of plants you like, and the effect you want to achieve.

Following a practical, no-nonsense approach, this gardening guide strips away complex design concepts and focuses on your needs to help you find your own garden style, even if you’re clueless about where to start. Discover simple garden design ideas that work equally well for a complete garden makeover or an elegant but low-maintenance garden.

Create your perfect garden without breaking the bank, with an easy-to-follow planting guide that is perfect for beginner and seasoned gardeners alike.

Additional information

Weight 963 g
Dimensions 240 × 202 × 26 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

255

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

712.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K