By: Chris Young, Alan Titchmarsh (Foreword by)

Paperback

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A showcase of the best ideas, trends, styles and techniques from the stars of the world-famous Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show.

"Best Garden Design" is an inspirational sourcebook that identifies the most attractive, practical and portable ideas from hundreds of gardeners and designers and analyzes how those ideas can work in any garden.

Interviews with gold medal-winning designers outline their individual design styles. Each design is then examined on a smaller scale to focus on the details and finishing touches that complete a design and help
transform everyday gardens into showstoppers.

The author gives gardeners the very best medal-worthy gardening advice from the Royal Horticultural Society, the United Kingdom's leading gardening charity, dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. "Best Garden Design" addresses virtually every aspect of creating a garden worthy of the Chelsea Flower Show, including: Lighting
Topiary
Seating
Decking
Water features
Kitchen gardens
Artful recycling
Growing old roses
Better baskets
How to position garden art
Reshaping a patio
Perfect perennials
Herbs
Drought

Not even the most dedicated visitor to the Chelsea Flower Show could amass this many notes of such value.

Now we can take in the gardens at Chelsea without suffering the 6 days of crowds or the jetlag.... This book showcases a broad diversity of recent vignettes. It's a good read if you have done or plan to do a show garden.... Yet the focus of the book is the real life take away and each case study specifically highlights features that might translate into actual landscapes. The author is successful in examining what makes a display effective in total, but also dwells on the details... Chapters full of photos of hardscape, water, lighting or art provide hundreds of novel ideas both grandiose and simple.--Colleen Miko"The B and B Magazine, Washington State Nursery and" (10/01/2011)

ISBN: 9781554079940
ISBN-10: 1554079942
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 224
Published: 13th March 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 18.9  x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.649