Garden Decorating: How to Add Beauty, Structure, and Function to Your Garden

by Better Homes and Gardens

Offers suggestions on how to apply interior style and design to exterior spaces, covering such topics as fountains, furnishing, trellises, fire pits, and maintenance. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Genres: Gardening

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has many beautiful pictures of gardens, garden structures, ornaments, and plants. There are instructions for some projects. The main attraction of the book for me is it provides a peek into many lovely gardens.

[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are looking to add some whimsical or homey details to your garden and take it to a level beyond just plants, this is the book for you. This book teaches primarily by photos and doesn't give the technical instruction of how to match your garden architecture to your house, or how to build garden rooms that enhance the features of your natural landscape. Details that can make your garden a treasure, range from easy craft ideas the whole family can participate in to weekend carpentry projects to more complicated stone walls. Some ideas are cute and playful, and others more sophisticated. This book is not about plants, but you will see many interesting uses of plants throughout the book. Since summertime is nearly here, you will at least enjoy looking at this book's photographs!

[Bre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very neat ideas in this book. They range from complicated to very simple.