Product Description

With a host of innovative ideas for eye-catching garden features that make the most of a small space, gardening experts Richard Bird and George Carter lead you through fifty-six superb 'Projects for Small Gardens". For plots as small as a window box or as long as a pathway, Bird and Carter detail the essentials of decorative gardening, like raised beds, fences, arches and trellises. -A divine collaboration of talents form bestseller Richard Bird and award-winner George Carter. -Concealed spiral binding with fold-out pages for laying the book flat while concentrating on projects. -Complete descriptions of materials and equipment, step-by-step illustrations, and easy-to-follow templates

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1126348 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 272 pages

Review
Small gardens are often hard to furnish with ideas gleaned from magazines and books: too large and out of proportion, not enough room or too bitty for such tiny gardens. Richard Bird and George Carter, both veteran gardening writers and designers, offer a solution in this revised edition of "Projects for Small Gardens". Attractively presented with internal spiral-bound, pull-out pages, they offer a total of 56 different, easy to achieve projects, all suitable for today's small gardens. Contemporary mixes with traditional, formal mingles with informal, and all are innovative and charming, giving ideas for every situation and covering all tastes. Modern wall cascades, Versailles tubs, a very impressive primula theatre, sweet chestnut hurdles, painted pots and raised scented windowboxes adorned with decorative lead, intermingle with planting schemes and hard-landscaping suggestions. Edible cultivation features strongly with the emphasis on herbs and container growing. All construction mediums are covered from woodworking, bricklaying and metalwork while general soil preparation and cultivation techniques are looked at too. All projects require only the minimum of experience and the majority should be easily accomplished by a novice. Each project is accompanied by an attractive photograph of the finished result whilst the interior foldouts contain detailed step-by-step instructions. An inspirational and achievable guide with projects to suit not only small gardens but larger ones too, adding an extra special dimension to a hard to plan for space.

About the Author
George Carter won a gold medal for garden design at the 1999 Chelsea Flower Show. He is the author of "'Gardening with Containers"', "'Gardening with Herbs"', and "'Living with Plants"'.

Richard Bird is an enthusiastic and highly experienced gardener whose books include "'Flowering Trees and Shrubs, Organic Gardening"' and with Christopher LLoyd, "'Cottage Gardens"'.