Brand New Garden: From Bare Plot to Stylish Garden in 5 Easy Steps - Softcover

Smith, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0600607828 ISBN 13: 9780600607823

Publisher: Hamlyn, 2003

Synopsis

Aimed at all those new homeowners who inherit a bare plot from the builders, this title reveals how to make your garden work for you from the very beginning with simple solutions and instant transformations. It includes six off-the-peg designs aimed to inspire and take you step-by-step through the process of planning your perfect garden. In time when budget allows, you can add more features from the guide, developing your garden without wasting anything you may have done so far.

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Review:

Faced with a new garden many people have visions of an instant "Ground Force" makeover. But where to begin? How to avoid costly mistakes? This attractively presented book attempts to offer advice from the basics to the more complex design projects. Divided into 5 simple stages, author Joanna Smith explains how to assess your new plot, how to add instant interest cheaply, how to plan for the future and how to carry out the work itself. Colour photographs and illustrations throughout display innovative ideas to translate into your own plans and key bullet points focus the mind on the more pertinent facts. An eye on the pursestrings is an underlying factor ensuring the projects embarked on do not go to waste in later years but add a mature background for more expensive projects to be carried out when funds are more readily available. Ending on a series of evolving designs of 7 differently styled gardens, this is a book for beginner gardeners, those faced with a new home and only a builder's dumping ground for a garden and, aware the house itself will be taking up most of any spare funds, Joanna's aim is to show how cheaply the bones of an attractive garden can be laid. - Lucy Watson

About the Author:

Joanna Smith began her career as a Features Editor on a gardening magazine. Since then she has written countless garden magazine features, and commissioned and edited a wide range of gardening books. She lives in Sussex where she is restoring her cottage garden.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamlyn
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0600607828
• ISBN 13: 9780600607823
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 96