Garden Styles: An Essential Guide

Garden Styles - An Essential Guide

Freda Cox

ISBN: 9781847971784
PUBLISHED: 24/05/2010
PAGES: 240
BINDING: Hardback
SIZE: 280x215 mm
INSIDE: 250 colour photographs 200 botanical colour illustrations

Whether your garden is large or small, in the town or country, you can create your own distinctive style, drawing inspiration from the past as well as looking to the future. This book offers very different and inspirational styles from around the world to encourage you to try something new in your own garden. Exploring garden designs from ancient to modern, it gives an overview of eleven different styles: introducing their history, analysing their key elements and giving practical tips and a plant list for each.
Garden styles covered:
• Classic
• Informal
• Cottage
• Mediterranean and dry
• Exotic and sub-tropical
• Japanese
• Islamic
• Modern
• Water
• Small
• Future