Small Garden

by John Brookes

Book Overview

The dean of garden design gives you all you need to know to create the garden of your dreams, even if you have only a balcony, rooftop, or a small yard to plant. Using a variety of structural... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756617235
• ISBN13: 9780756617233
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fanatastic

If you have a small garden in the city ,or just any small space which you would like to bring nature beauty in , this is just the book Loaded with great images , ideas and sound principals. Just loved it Lots of love Guy

Beauty in Miniature

Small gardens present the gardener with a host of problems, but also with the rare opportunity to demonstrate a flair for creativity and style in a small setting. In this book, the reader is treated to many wonderful ideas of how to use flowers and plantings to best advantage. Scale must be maintained in a small garden and the color photographs in this book will help guide the gardener establish a truly tranquil and beautiful setting in even the smallest of spaces. Well worth it.

Inspirational

Don't go buy this book if you are looking for instructions on how to do what. It's a wonderful book as inspiration. There are many photos of wonderful gardens that will make you get ideas for your own. That is really all I have to say about the book.

Excellent for Inspiration; Good for text/instruction

THis book is heavy -- high quality paper, excellent pictures. It has a lot of really unique and beautiful gardens. More photos than any I have come across; I found the text to be helpful but I'd put this in the category of "inspiration" rather than "instruction." If you know something about gardening and want ideas, I highly recommend it.

Good Starter Book

This was a very good introductory book for a beginner like myself to basic principles of garden designing for small spaces. Brookes has separated the major concepts into six easy to read chapters: linking living/outdoor space, style, case studies, design (planning), structure (ground pattern, paving, fencing, furnishings) and planting. Each well-written chapter is accompanied by beautiful pictures to illustrate his point. I've tabbed more ideas from this book, than from any of my other books on garden design. If you are a beginner and have a small or tiny back-yard or no back-yard (roof top, apartment terrace), really consider getting this book.