Where can gardeners turn for help with design problems? Garden Designs is the answer. This title presents readers with a collection of 100 full-color illustrated garden plans, accompanied by detailed planting lists. It also contains planting solutions for a variety of landscape situations that might arise and beautiful photos that accompany the pages and pages of innovative suggestions. Garden Designs also includes great ideas for trouble areas and for gardens with themes or special appeal to birds or butterflies. From designing the layouts to deciding what plants go where, this title is a one-stop guide to creating great gardens!
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Nice Ideas I love gardening but am not the best at designing gardens, so I frequently look for books to give me ideas about designs. This one has quite a few nice designs will full plant lists, but unfortunately, it was lacking on designs for my area or zone. Only one garden in the entire book fit my zone, which is 28. I would suggest that in the future each garden design includes substitutions for plants to make it fit in other areas or zones.
I am studying to become a Landscape Designer and this book has alota fabulous ideas in it! I highly recommend adding it to your library.
I like this book because it gives gardeners lots of ideas for various garden designs, in all shapes and sizes. There are designs for narrow walkways, curved entrances, large yards, small yards, front yards, back yards, boulevards, and with varying themes: by colour; by function (e.g. to attract butterflies or hummingbirds); by plant types (e.g. all shrubs, herbs, cutting flowers, fragrant plants). While not every design is suitable for every Zone, there is a good selection for each Zone, and where possible the authors provide substitutions to expand the applicable zones for a design. The book also includes botanical as well as common names for all plants listed in the coloured watercolour drawings. All in all, this is a very well written and useful book, for gardeners of all levels.
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