Product Description

Showing how to create and embellish fences, hedges, walls, plant screens, and trellises, this seventh volume in the series features 20 exciting projects, including a fruit wall, formal and informal hedges, a picket fence and a rose arch. 50 color photos and 300 illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1151787 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 111 pages

Amazon.com Review
Fences, hedges, walls, trellises, and screens form the structure around which any garden is framed. Using these elements effectively permits the savvy gardener to "divide and conquer" and creatively highlight certain garden features while masking others, providing shade, privacy, striking visual effects and defining distinct areas of the garden for aesthetic or practical reasons. Richard Bird gives the reader many ideas for projects, including a fruit wall, formal and informal hedges, a picket fence, a rustic trellis, a rose arch, and more than 20 projects that the enthusiastic gardener can duplicate or customize from this elaborately illustrated, lovely handbook of ideas. --Mark A. Hetts

Customer Reviews

TRULY, THE BEST BOOK IN MY GARDEN LIBRARY!
For one of the least expensive gardening books I have ever purchased, this one is exremely helpful and even inspirational! Four of the 20 garden projects included in this workbook were on my list of things I had always wanted to do, but could never find the specific 'how to' information. So, in addition to looking at beautiful pictures of the Beech hedge I always wanted to plant or the Madame Alfred Carriere rose fanned out against a house wall, I now have a complete list of the exact materials and equipment needed as well thoroughly written steps and stages. After reading it from beginning to end, I find at least four more garden projects to add to the 'must do' list! Thank you!!

You'll want to fence yourself in
This is a lovely little book that details 20 different walls, hedges, fences, and decorative dividers. The instructions are easy to follow from the equipment listings to the instructions and illustrations for building the hedge or wall. The beautiful pictures make you want to rush out to your backyard and begin your own hedge!