Home Gardener's Garden Design & Planning (UK Only). A. & G. Bridgewater

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      Contents

       Author’s foreword

       GETTING STARTED

       Enjoying your garden

       Assessing your garden

       Gathering inspiration

       Design techniques

       Getting it down on paper

       Planning the work

       Tools and materials

       Marking out the site

       CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

       Walls, fences, hedges and gates

       Patios

       Decking

       Paths and steps

       Lawns and edgings

       Borders

       Pergolas, arches and trellis

       Garden buildings and shelters

       GARDEN DESIGNS

       Traditional cottage kitchen garden

       Water garden

       Modern Mediterranean garden

       Formal English garden

       Secluded city garden

       Japanese garden

       Wild meadow orchard garden

       Herb garden

       Wildlife garden

       Front garden car park

       Rock and water garden

       Small patio garden

       PLANTS

       Choosing plants

       Designing with plants

       Trees and shrubs

       Hedges and wall shrubs

       Climbing plants

       Herbaceous perennials

       Bedding plants

       Annuals and biennials

       Rock, scree and desert plants

       Water plants

       Bamboos and grasses

       Container plants

       Herbs

       Fruit and vegetables

       Glossary

       Index

      UK Edition

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      Copyright © 2006, 2016 illustrations and photographs IMM Lifestyle Books

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      Design: Glyn Bridgewater; Illustrations: Dawn Brend, Gill Bridgewater, Coral Mula, and Ann Winterbotham; Editor: Alison Copland; Photographs: see page 80

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      Home Gardener’s Garden Design & Planning: Designing, planning, building, planting, improving and maintaining gardens is published by Creative Homeowner under license with IMM Lifestyle Books.

      eISBN: 978-1-60765-199-4

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