New Small Garden : : Contemporary Principles, Planting and Practice

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Includes index.
Assessing your space -- Design tricks for small spaces -- Layering with plants -- Plants for small gardens -- Vertical planting -- Mini wildlife havens -- Sustainable small spaces -- Containers for small plots -- Making space for food -- Plant selector.
Small gardens are a challenge to design and to keep looking good. This title aims to inspire and inform gardeners to make the most of their small spaces by looking at more than 50 contemporary and inspirational gardens, at how their designers have created them and how their owners use and develop them. In this serious review of the perennial subject, Noel explains the theory and practice of planting a small garden, he advocates on the use of containers, revitalises growing your own, and explains design tricks, storage solutions and vertical planting to help small garden owners maximise their small spaces. And lack of space should not limit ambition for embracing sustainability, the use of recycled materials and the scope for bio-diversity as well as providing habitats for wildlife. All the gardens featured have been photographed in the last two years. Special photography is by Dutch garden photographer and former fashion stylist Maayke de Ridder whose design rigour perfectly complements the author's gardening expertise.

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Inspiring gardens submitted by ssands on August 31, 2020, 10:39pm This book is beautiful! It starts with some very helpful information about how to design small gardens like the idea of having parts of the garden that can't be clearly seen from the main vantage point. It doesn't seem to be pushing one aesthetic too much, there's discussion of gardens with open space in the middle, and the opposite idea of filling the middle with a mass of plants. The author does not look down on plant collectors who fill their small gardens to the point of being jungle-like. Most of the photos are of professionally designed gardens and are thus beautiful and probably financially out of reach, but it gives an idea of what one might strive for. The specific plants mentioned in the text and in a comprehensive table in the back, are, alas, sometimes not adapted to our climate, and worse, some that are praised in the text are invasive and not welcome here.