Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

John Brooke's Garden Design Book

0-86318-638-6

John Brooke

Plants, gardens, diagrams

The complete practical guides to planning, styling and planting any garden. Provides good design principles with planting categories of 1) the special, 2) the skeletons, 3) the decoratives, 4) the pretties and 5) infill.

Low-Water Gardening

0-460-86151-4

John Lucas

28 pages of good descriptions with uses, restrictions and cultivar name of trees and plants resistant to drought. Good design chapter. Creating and running the ideal garden with less water

Making a Cottage Garden

0-7135-2650-5

Faith and Geoff Whiten

Plants and gardens

Essay on cottage gardens. Good description Plant check-list of shrubs, roses, climbing and rambling roses, climbing plants, perennials, bulbs, annuals, biennials and herbs, which are authentic and can be obtained today.

Making a Rose Garden

0-297-83117-8

Ethne Clarke

100 old-fashioned roses

Good rose garden design essay. Garden designs: - cottage, Victorian rose, scented, terrace, garden for all seasons and heritage. 100 old-fashioned rose good descriptions, some with colour photo. Good descriptions of underplanting and companion planting plants

Mediterranean Gardening

84-273-0749-7

Heidi Gildemeister

Mediterranean Plants

How to create a Mediterranean Garden with plant cultivar data

Plan and Design your garden

a practical guide to designing and planting your garden

1-84309-762-1

Peter McHoy

15 plans and 100 colour photos

Usefull garden design principles with the transition from structural design to planting plan well explained. 15 design plans with practical sections explained in detail on how to create them

Plans for Small Gardens

0-304-31101-4

Geoffrey K. Coombs

11 garden plans. 2 pages of plant associations. Thin book

Ponds and Water Gardens

0-7137-1861-7

Bill Heritage

Pond plants and Ponds

Pond design, construction and maintenance

Popular Garden Designs

0-572-01478-3

Guy and Donald Farthing

40 plan and garden views

A choice of 20 garden plans to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of home owners

Really Small Gardens

1-899988-71-8

Jill Billington

150 colour photos of small gardens and 30 illustrated planting schemes

Select plants and materials that make the most of a small space.Use illusion to make the garden look more spacious. The garden plans show what looks good in 99% of small gardens with the plants and hard landscaping materials stated. Shaping of plants to create 3 dimensional effects is explained as well as planting effects with variety of form, texture and habit.. Lists of plants for those planting effects. A very usefull book that requires reading and re-reading before designing your plot from it using your own style.

Small Space Gardening

gardening successfully in small spaces

1-84309-764-8

Peter McHoy

120 colour photos showing how to do something and explanatory diagrams

Usefull design ideas with practical advice on how to construct the design.

The Complete Book of Garden Design, Construction and Planting

1-84188-172-4

David Stevens, Lucy Huntingdon and Richard Key

Garden plans

Elements of garden design, practical construction diagrams with detailed methodology of planting design and planting plans and plant lists

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui

How to apply the secrets of Chinese wisdom for health, wealth and happiness

1-85230-882-6

Lillian Too

Explanation of Feng Shui with its principles and practice. This explains the principles and practice of living in harmony with your natural and man-made environment, and explains how, by making changes to your surroundings, you can foster good health, improve relationships and attract prosperity both at home and in business

The Cottage Garden

0-86318-415-4

Christopher Lloyd & Richard Bird

This analyses exactly what makes a cottage garden. All of Cottage garden plants essay. Cottage-garden features. 6 cottage garden plans help design your own garden

The Country Diary Book of Creating a Butterfly Garden

0-86350-203-2

E.J.M. Warren

Butterflies and plants they like

How to create a butterfly garden

The Essential Gardener

A personal guide to successful modern gardening

1-85627-491-8

Dr Stefan Buczacki

Plants and diagrams

Interesting essay design section. Essay on maintaining your garden. Very Good descriptions with recommended cultivars of - vegetables, herbs, fruit, lawn, garden hedge, trees, shrubs, climbing plants, roses, herbaceous perennials, annuals and biennials, bulbs, alpine and rock garden plants, and water plants. A general gardening book which contains only the information that he believes the average gardener of 1993 actually requires

The Feng Shui Garden Design your garden for health, wealth and happiness

1-85410-546-9

Gill Hale

Feng Shui principles for the garden and creating a Feng Shui garden. Basic book

The Garden Designer

0-7112-0812-3

Robin Williams

Gardens and plans

Garden plans. 4 pages of the analysis, the zoning plan, the finished design and the working plan of the design process

The Garden Sourcebook the essential guide to planning and planting

1-85732-989-4

Caroline Boisset

plants, gardens and plans

Garden design - Assessment of the plot itself, what it offers and what its potential may be. Then, analyze each component in the garden - structural and architectural features, ornament, and, finally, the plants. Good descriptions of plants, some with photos