Down-to-Earth Garden Design: How to Design and Build Your Dream Garden

Down-to-Earth Garden Design: How to Design and Build Your Dream Garden

Creating a dream garden might look easy on TV, but when you're standing in your own backyard it can be hard to know where to start.

This garden design book takes you through the planning and design process and gives you the practical skills, knowledge and construction ability to make your ideas a reality. Experienced gardener and landscape designer Phil Dudman breaks down the design process into a series of simple steps that you can follow at your own pace, in your own time. Learn how to draft your design, develop your style and draw a master plan and planting plan.

With Phil's professional design secrets and practical knowledge, you'll quickly be on your way to building retaining walls, steps and pergolas; laying pavers and pathways; and even installing drainage. And when the construction is done, he shows you how to establish a lawn, improve your soil and ensure your new garden flourishes.

Fully illustrated with easy to follow step-by-step diagrams and inspirational photographs, DOWN-TO-EARTH GARDEN DESIGN is the essential guide for any backyard gardener whether they want a stunning new design or just to make some improvements without enormous expense.



Down-to-Earth Garden Design: How to Design and Build Your Dream Garden
Harper Collins
By Phil Dudman
ISBN: 9780733323454
Price: $35.00