Creating a Family Garden: Magical Outdoor Spaces for All Ages

by Bunny Guinness

Got kids in your chrysanthemums? A swing set in your rhododendrons? This colorful, engaging book brings practical suggestions and beautiful illustrations to bear on the often thorny task of blending... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789202182
• ISBN13: 9780789202185
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

At play in the country garden

There are endless books about landscaping, and many about English "country" gardens. But this was my favorite because it was not just about the plants and landscape, but how to play amongst them. That, to me, is what family gardening is ultimately about.

Enchanting book

I generally do not read garden books, just get ideas from the pictures, but I have read it cover to cover and keep it close at hand to examine the pictures in detail. It is a good combination of fanciful creations that are out of reach for the ordinary yard, and things that anyone can do themselves. There are ideas for children's games that can be incorporated into the yard, fancy rabbit hutches, and other projects as well as a picture of an incredible garden show entry. I have enjoyed this book more than any other garden book I can remember.

Spectacularly beautiful gardens, very complete with how-to's

Gorgeous family gardens, not for children only. Bunny Guinness has superb taste and superior design ability, coupled with a solid knowledge of plant material. I have given this book three times as important gifts to very close friends and it's always bowled them over, too. Actually, this may be my best impulse purchase ever. . .

Each page was better than the last, I couldn't wait to start

This was the most inspirational garden/landscape book I have ever read. It successfully combined beautiful spaces for adults with play areas for the children that were pleasing to all. The photos are great, not only a great coffee table book, but one that makes you want to rush out and creat you own family garden.