Product Description

Creating a terrace or rooftop paradise

This city-dwellers guide to gardening shows how less is actually more, especially when it comes to creating one's own terrace and rooftop paradise. With ten sample gardens to choose from, including the plans for each, this practical guide describes every aspect of urban gardening-from design for roofs, screening and framing, gardening without soil to containers, furniture, and decorations and special effects. Full of overall and close-up photos of each garden, this magazine-style guide will show any apartment dweller how to create their very own Eden-with a garden of ferns and bamboos and vegetables and herbs only footsteps away.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103819 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
"...excellent and inspirational books...simplifies the whole complicated business of garden design...easy reading and beautifully illustrated." Motoring & Leisure July/August 2008

From the Inside Flap
Garden Style Guides

This new series of compact illustrated books from John Wiley & Sons makes gardening, fresh, engaging and accessible. The emphasis is on high style and low maintenance – quick fix, high-impact solutions. Featuring newly commissioned photography, each title provides lashings of inspiration to help create your own garden, whether it be a minimalist terrace, a wild flower haven or a family garden.

Titles in the series include:

Design Your Garden: 10 simple steps to transform your garden
ISBN: 978-0-470-51763-5 (£9.99)

Garden Makeovers: Quick fixes and designer secrets to transform your garden
ISBN: 978-0-470-51762-8 (£9.99)

Low-Maintenance Gardens: 10 simple steps to beautiful, easy and stylish outside spaces
ISBN: 978-0-470-51751-2 (£9.99)

Rooftop & Terrace Gardens: A step-by-step guide to creating a modern and stylish space
ISBN: 978-0-470-51761-1 (£9.99)

From the Back Cover
Garden Style Guide

Rooftop &Terrace Gardens: A step-by-step guide to creating a modern and stylish space

How is it possible to create a stunning space with no natural soil? This book looks at exciting ways to create terrace and rooftop spaces. It is full of ideas for visually appealing and practical planting in containers and raised beds, ranging from ferns and bamboos to vegetables and herbs. It also gives useful tips for screening and framing and provides a directory of plants for containers and roof gardens.

• Features newly commissioned photography by Steve Gorton
• Illustrated with specially drawn garden plans
• Packed with highly practical tips and quick-fix solutions
• Includes in detail 10 beautiful gardens to inspire

Customer Reviews

Great little starter book.
I just moved into a new apartment with a patio, and needed inspiration on how to decorate it, or make it more welcoming. This little book was very inspiring, it gets straight to the point, and you are left wanting to know more. Towards the end of the book, there are examples of layouts and, setups, to give you more concrete examples, which I thought was very helpful.