SMALL FAMILY GARDENS

Description

Size is no object if you want to create a highly attractive, modern family garden. This book shows how even at the smallest scale it is possible to design your own beautiful and stylish outdoor space where both adults and children can have fun. It features fourteen gardens that are all very different in style and location – from a roof terrace and minimalist space in the city to a wildlife garden in the country. Several pages are dedicated to each scheme demonstrating in full how it is possible to achieve ‘the look’, ‘the features’ and ‘the planting’ of the illustrated garden. As well as stunning photography, the book includes specially drawn plans. It provides a plethora of ideas for those who might want to overhaul their whole garden or just rethink a small part of it.

Features

• Brilliant, beautiful, contemporary design ideas
• Lots of information and ideas about the perfect plants for you
• Great suggestions for garden features and hands-on projects to do in the garden

CONTENTS

Minimalist

• Design Creating a minimalist garden
• Plants Easy Plants
• Feature Walls and Boundaries

Mediterranean Modern

• Design Employing a garden designer
• Plants Trees for Small Gardens
• Feature Seating areas and furniture

Jungle

• Design To lawn or not to lawn
• Plants Jungle Plants
• Feature Water

Sophisticated Rooms

• Design Slopes, steps and retaining walls
• Plants Colour
• Feature Floors

Country

• Design How to make decking work
• Plants Gardening with children
• Feature Willow structures

Silver, Green & White

• Design Dividing the garden
• Plants Containers
• Feature Design our own garden

Water Light & Walls

• Design The outside room
• Plants New Perennial planting
• Feature Lighting

Height & Depth

• Design Growing food
• Plants Vertical planting
• Feature Play equipment

Exotic Heat Island

• Design Small wildlife ponds
• Plants Tropical plants
• Feature Hideaways

Rendered Walls

• Design Using free-standing walls
• Plants Shadows and Shapes
• Feature Rendered Walls

Roof Garden

• Design Roof gardens
• Plants Plants for screening
• Feature Green roofs

Oriental

• Design Extensions
• Plants Plants for shade
• Feature Sculpture

Wildlife Garden

• Design Encouraging Wildlife
• Plants Creating a wildflower meadow
• Feature Things to attract wildlife

Soft & Scented

• Design Designing a city garden
• Plants Scented Plants
• Feature Finishing touches

158 pages, color ills / 25,5 x 21,5 cm / English