How to Survey Your Garden - The Step-by-Step Guide to Measuring and Drawing a Scale Plan of Your Garden

by Rachel Mathews

Creating a scale garden plan is the vital first stage to successfully landscaping your garden. Without an accurate plan it's impossible to create a design that will work in your garden. This book will guide you through all that is necessary to measure your garden as accurately as possible and create a scale drawing.

This short book will concisely explain how to draw your garden survey to scale to create a base plan to enable you to start to design your garden. This is ideal for complete beginners or anyone who wishes to design their own garden.

Also covered:
How to survey levels
How to measure awkward sites
How to draw up your survey
How to understand and use scale

About the Author



Rachel Mathews has been a garden designer for 20 years. She has designed hundreds of beautiful gardens in the UK. She has also designed gardens across the USA, Australia, Malaysia and Spain. As well as designing, Rachel now teaches garden design and has written a series of ‘how to’ garden design books and online courses. She teaches a very simple method that enables anyone to create a stunning garden at Successful Garden Design.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 19, 2012