Perfect Small Gardens

by Peter McHoy

Accessible advice on making the best of small plots, from planning and garden design to planting, pruning, and maintenance. Full of easy and inspirational ideas for every kind of outside space.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2001

About the author

Peter McHoy is a garden author and journalist. He has written books on many gardening topics including Planning Your Garden, How to Garden and The Practical Gardening Encyclopedia.

Reviews

[Tilden]

A very practical, how-to guide for planning and making a small garden. Different types of gardens are featured and McHoy gives instructions on how to build paths with different materials, plants to use and how to plant and care for them. There are pictured gardens with drawings of the garden with the plants and a list of the plants with their botanical names if you want to use the design for your garden.
A good resource.

[Melissa Shreve]

Do you love to garden. I do. I have a small garden. Fun to read and love to look at different ideas on adding a smaller garden to the yard.

[wueasa]

Only had time to have a really quick look. Nat thought it didn't have anything in it that applied to our situation. I thought the front part of the book looked quite good from a technical design point of view.