Family Gardens - Hardcover

Guinness, Bunny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715304224 ISBN 13: 9780715304228

Publisher: David & Charles, 1996

Synopsis

Far from compromising the dreams of gardening enthusiasts, this book shows how plants and children can successfully co-exist in the same space. It includes garden plans, step-by-step projects for making full-scale structures like tree-houses, cable runways and paddling pools and instructions for making simple features like children's picnic tables, teepees and rabbit hutches. Advice is given on turning gardens into fantasy worlds for children, complete with bamboo thickets in which to make dens, fairy-tale playhouses and pools filled with tadpoles, watersnails and newts. For adults, the book provides all the ingredients for creating a garden which is a safe play environment for children and a place for all the family to relax and enjoy the sights, scents and sounds of the natural world.

About this title

Review:

Review from BBC Good Homes - This brilliant book is packed with everything from how to build a treehouse to creating a mini golf course, all in a handy ring-bound finish. --BBC Good Homes

About the Author:

Bunny Guinness is at the peak of the garden design profession and proud owner of 5 gold medals from the Chelsea Flower Show. She has a degree in horticulture and is a qualified Landscape Architect. Since setting up her own practice in 1986, her work has taken her all over the world and has ranged from designing family gardens to landscaped grounds for hospitals and offices. She has appeared regularly on TV and radio. Bunny lives in Cambridgeshire, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: David & Charles
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0715304224
• ISBN 13: 9780715304228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168