How to Design a Garden: Create and Maintain Your Dream Garden
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Design the garden of your dreams with the expertise of award-winning garden designer Pollyanna Wilkinson.
How to Design A Garden shows you how to untap your garden’s potential and customize the design to suit you and your space: whether that be an extension of your living space for parties and al fresco dining or a calming oasis to relax in.
Equipped with all you need to know about light, focal points, hardscaping, and planting, you’ll have the skills to create a mood board, design layout, choose paving, furniture, and plant combinations. Polly expertly guides you to understand how the elements in your garden will work together as one – and she is not shy to share her opinions on certain design dos and don’ts!
Once you’ve designed your garden, month-by-month growing guides help you to nurture it, so you can enjoy your dream space for years to come.
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Publisher : DK
Publication date : February 4, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 0241648815
ISBN-13 : 978-0241648810
Item Weight : 1.74 pounds
Dimensions : 7.75 x 0.91 x 10 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #51,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #17 in Landscape #32 in Garden Design (Books) #47 in Gardening Encyclopedias
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11 reviews for How to Design a Garden: Create and Maintain Your Dream Garden
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Ashley –
Great book
Wonderful for gardening.
Healtp –
Great book, a lot of useful practical adice
I pre-ordered this and it did not disappoint. I have several new planting beds to plan, and Wilkinsonâs advice and diagrams is very helpful. She gives some suggestions for layouts, but she also gave me the tools to create my own. Chapters on materials, layout, play sections, fire pits, color theory – she managed too get it all in there.
Lisa C. –
Step by Step Guide to your Garden
This is an amazing guide that walks you through the how to steps of creating your own garden design. She outlines everything from hardscaping and potential stone laying patterns to pots and how to determine what plants will thrive in your space. Iâve been waiting for years for a book like this to walk me through how to take my Instagram inspiration gardens and turn my own space into the best garden it can be.
lbondle –
Better for your coffee table than as a reference.
Pretty picture book without practical advice.
Kim Tompkins –
I expected more andâ¦.
If you know anything about landscape there is going to be very few things learned from this book. The last ten pages maybe youâll find a nugget or two. There are limited examples, no labeled plants, and the tone/photos from the book seem to be taken from a single garden. I was hopeful for more details and ideas.
Rekha Sashti –
Excellent English Garden Design Resource
This is a wonderful resource. We just purchased a small home with no real landscaping, providing me with a blank slate to design a cottage garden. In the front, I want more formality, and in the back, I want a looser feel. This book provides enough detail to address both, from tips on designing the general layout, laying down paths (including materials and dimensions), and finally how to lay out the plants for the borders. I wanted to provide some structure in my gardens with trees and clipped evergreens, and the book addresses this, too! So glad I bought this.
carole taylor –
Received my book today, I’m so pleased with it. I love the writing style, its like having a friend by your side advising you. Lots of great advice from Pollyanna.I’m planting up a large border this year, so its given me a good foundation for planting all my plants in the right place.Lovely photographs to give you inspiration too….a very classy little book.
Daine Reed –
Good explanations!
João Bicho –
One of the greatest books of landscape architecture and gardening from the last years
Lien Michiels –
I had been following Pollyanna Wilkinsonâs videos on TikTok for a while when she announced this book and I immediately decided to purchase it – although I was wondering how much more it would teach me than the videos already had. The answer is A TON! The book is super comprehensive, detailing everything from drafting a plan to hardscaping and plants⦠and itâs really made me think about my previous garden design. Must-have for anyone who was born with both the DIY and garden gene.
Helena Baker –
Wer wissen möchte, wie man systematisch an die Planung und Gestaltung seines Gartens herangeht, ist hier bestens aufgehoben. Pollyanna Wilkinson erläutert einfach und verständlich die relevanten Schritte und vermittelt nebenbei wichtige Grundlagen. Ich bin von dem Bauch begeistert und kann es wärmestens weiterempfehlen.