The Big Book of Garden Design: Simple Steps to Creating Beautiful Gardens

by Time-Life Books (Editor)

For gardeners with growing dreams, this oversize volume offers landscaping plans, lush color photos (requiring two pages of credits), zone and frost maps, and an encyclopedic plant guide. Further useful features detailed diagrams and plant suggestions for variously-themed and sited gardens, plant selection and trouble-shooting tips, answers to common questions, and furnishings to complete the successful garden. One small yards but not limited budgets are addressed. 9.25x11.25 Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Gardening

368 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998

Reviews

[AJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was a new homeowner looking for landscaping ideas when I picked this up in 1999. The most useful things about it were the planting and frost zones. But the flowers, plants, and landscaping ideas it gave me for the English country garden I ended up designing in the backyard had a fantastic mixture of flowers that bloomed at different times. Good choice for the new gardener.