Planning and creating your first garden: A step-by-step guide to designing your garden - whatever your experience or knowledge - Couverture souple

Power, Paul

 
9781845281878: Planning and creating your first garden: A step-by-step guide to designing your garden - whatever your experience or knowledge
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 184528187X ISBN 13 : 9781845281878
Editeur : How To Books, 2007

Synopsis

In this book, landscape gardener Paul Power takes you through the step-by-step process of creating your own beautiful garden, regardless of your experience or gardening knowledge. Everything you need is here, from how to create a scale drawing of your proposed garden to making your own planting plan. The common garden design problems are covered. 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".

Contents: Preface; 1. What's involved in Designing Your Garden; 2. The First Steps in the Design Process; 3. Indentifying Potential and Opportunity; 4. Principles of Creative Garden Design; 5. Deciding on a Style for Your Garden and Finalising Your Plan; 6. Creating and Working With Planting Plans; 7. Rough Guide to Positioning Anything; 8. Getting Ready to Start on Your Project; 9. Problems, practicalities and positions; 10. Starting Working on your Project; 11. Working with soft features; 12. Everything you Need to Know about Lawns; 13. Fruit Trees and Hedges; 14. Constructing ponds and shingle areas; 15. Seasonal Calendar and Plants for Difficult Places; A final word of encouragement, Index.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
How To Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
184528187X
ISBN 13 
9781845281878
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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