<b>"Creating a garden doesn't need to be complicated." This is the promise from Adam Frost, BBC Gardeners' World presenter and winner of multiple Chelsea Flower Show gold medals. </b> Regardless of your experience or budget, with Adam's help and know-how, you can design your dream garden, whether
How to Create Your Garden: Ideas and Advice for Transforming Your Outdoor Space
✍ Scribed by Adam Frost
- Publisher
- DK Publishing
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 256
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
"Creating a garden doesn't need to be complicated." This is the promise from Adam Frost, BBC Gardeners' World presenter and winner of multiple Chelsea Flower Show gold medals.
Regardless of your experience or budget, with Adam's help and know-how, you can design your dream garden, whether it's a small urban garden, a classic cottage garden, a suburban front garden, a low-maintenance space or a city roof terrace. His practical, no-nonsense approach strips away complex garden design concepts and focuses on your needs and preferred garden style to help you plan and build a garden that works for you.
Starting right at the beginning, Adam takes you step-by-step through the whole process, inspiring you with simple garden design ideas to tackle a full garden makeover or a simple revamp of just one part of your garden, perhaps a tired herbaceous border, a neglected vegetable patch, the patio, or a water feature.
Learn how to design a garden that reflects your practical needs, lifestyle, budget, personality, soil, and climate.
Build it yourself following the clear, uncomplicated, easy-to-understand instructions that show you everything from laying turf to terraces, planting trees or building a raised bed or water feature.
Enjoy gardening month by month with Adam's simple checklist of what to do when to keep your garden in shape at every point throughout the year.
How to Create Your Garden is about designing an outside space that is real, achievable, and right for you.
✦ Table of Contents
CONTENTS
GETTING STARTED
DESIGN
UNDERSTAND YOUR SPACE
Introduction
Get to know your space
Map out your space
Get to know your soil
Assess your garden’s climate
Think about your setting
Ask Adam
DESIGN FOR PEOPLE
Introduction
Who is your garden area for?
What is your garden area for?
How much time do you have?
Ask Adam
FIND YOUR STYLE
Introduction
Finding the right materials
Terraces
Designing terraces
Paths and walkways
Designing paths and walkways
Steps and level changes
Boundaries
Furniture
Water features
Lighting
Features
Structures
Build a mood board
Ask Adam
CHOOSE YOUR PLANTS
Introduction
Find your planting style
Think in layers
Upper and lower canopy of trees
Midlayer shrubs
Perennials
Bulbs
Climbers and wall shrubs
Annuals, biennials, and short-lived plants
Hedges
A mixed border
A shady border
A hot, dry border
A damp border
Review your planting wish list
Ask Adam
BRING IT ALL TOGETHER
Introduction
Step 1: Start the process
Step 2: Explore options
Step 3: Find the right balance
Step 4: Add some detail
Step 5: Finalize your plan
Step 6: Build your layers
Step 7: Plot your plants
Ask Adam
BUILD
BUILD YOUR GARDEN
Introduction
Basic tools for hard landscaping
Preparing the site
Creating a good base
Lay a gravel path
Lay slab paving
Lay brick paving
Build a low brick wall
Build steps
Concreting posts
Erect fencing
Build a plant support with rope swags
Build a raised bed
Build a water feature
PLANT YOUR GARDEN
Introduction
Basic tools for soft landscaping
Preparing the ground for grass
Lay sod
Plant trees and shrubs
Plant perennials
Plant bulbs
ENJOY
Introduction
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Useful information
Measurements and calculations
Glossary
Basic building materials
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
✦ Subjects
Landscape Design; Gardening
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