Product Description

Provides step-by-step process of creating your own beautiful garden, regardless of your experience or gardening knowledge. This book covers common garden design problems. It is for those who want to go-it-alone with their own garden project. Everything you need is here: how to easily create working drawings of your proposed new garden, [ractical advice on how to create the most common soft features such as lawns, border preparation and planting plans, as well as the following practical tips: 1. Avoiding the deadly sins of amateur garden design. 2. How to create color and contrasr all-year round. 3. Ways of introducing tension, mystery and surprise. 4. How to create a works schedule for your project. 5. Estimating your project in terms of time and cost. 6. What's involved in employing specialist help. 7. Introducing organic gardening into your project. Written from the author's depth of experience both as a practising gardener and in running his own Do-it-yourself Garden Design Workshops, this book is for anyone who wants to go-it-alone with their own garden project. Paul Power is also the author of the bestselling Starting Your Own Gardening Business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1057924 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 212 pages

Review
'An invaluable step-by-step guide to designing your garden. It's a good read even if you have some experience!' House & Home Ideas'Crammed with good ideas, and practical tips' SelfBuild & Design

About the Author
Paul Power is the author of the bestselling Starting Your Own Gardening Business. Written from his depth of experience both as a practising gardener and in running his own Do-it-yourself Garden Design Workshops, this book is for anyone who wants to go-it-alone with their own garden project.

Customer Reviews

A valued, highly recommended, and 'user friendly' instructional and reference resource
While landscape gardening does indeed enhance both the esthetic and the financial value of any property, novice gardeners can find it an intimidating aspiration. Practicing gardening and landscaping expert Paul Power wrote "Planning And Creating Your First Garden: a Step-by-Step Guide To Designing Your Garden -- Whatever Your Experience Or Knowledge" for just that reason. This superbly organized and comprehensive instruction manual begins with a detailed discussion of everything that must be considered in design a garden, takes the reader through the initial steps of the garden design process, points out gardening potentials and opportunities, lists and discusses the basic principles of creative garden designing, comments on developing a garden style and finalizing a garden design plan. "Planning And Creating Your First Garden" then moves on to crating and working with planting plans, positioning plants and everything from bird baths and benches to sheds and seating areas, to home garden offices and barbecues. Practical do-it-yourself advice on budges, positioning hard and soft features, working with contractors, lawns, fruit trees, hedges, ponds, seasonal calendars, and so much more make "Planning And Creating Your First Garden" a valued, highly recommended, and 'user friendly' instructional and reference resource that can help even the most modest beginning create and maintain a beautifully landscaped garden whether it be on a back lot or a palatial estate.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch