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Gardening in small spaces provides the perfect opportunity to create a private haven, whether you have a small town garden or a tiny roof garden. By using every available space, from the walls to the floors, you can transform the smallest of spaces into something special. This book takes you through each stage of good garden design, from working out what you want to preparing the final planting plan along with inspirational ideas and garden plans that are accompanied by a useful key identifying...

Professional advice on planning, planting, care and maintenance.

Gertrude Jekyll was perhaps the most important British garden designer of the 20th century. She famously argued that gardening ought to be considered a Fine Art, highlighting that it becomes a point of honour to be always striving for the best. This volume examines Jekyll's work at Manor House, Upton Grey in Hampshire, offering an insight into her eclectic, imaginative, and inspiring art. Designed between 1908 and 1909, and once maintained by as many as nine gardeners, the garden fell into disr...

Adding a pond to your garden creates a haven of tranquillity and serenity at any time of the year. "Gem Garden Ponds" is the comprehensive beginner's guide to mastering the practicalities of pond styles, materials and wildlife. A pond with a creative use of plants can transform your garden into an oasis teeming with wildlife. "Gem Garden Ponds" is the indispensable guide to creating the perfect pond, giving the reader clear guidance on the practical process. This practical, pocket-sized beginner...

This guide takes you on an illustrated tour of the very best of the gardens of the University of Cambridge, some of the most beautiful, unique and historical horticultural spaces of any University around the world. For students and alumni, their families, Cambridge locals and for lovers of private gardens, Tim Richardson's book on the most exquisite gardens in and around the university of Cambridge's colleges combines brilliant research and elegant prose with stunning photography by Clive Bour...

From the bijou corners of Corpus Christi to the wide open lawns of Trinity, Oxford's gardens are full of surprises and hidden corners - not least the fellows' or masters' gardens, which are usually kept resolutely private. Take a tour of the stunning gardens of this prestigious British institution without leaving your armchair with this elegant, authoritative analysis full of glorious photographs which reveal their full interest and charm. The gardens of Oxford's thirty or so colleges are surpri...

Ornamental gardening has a long and intriguing history that can be traced back to the start of the first millennium. Roman Gardens highlights the enormous impact of the Roman occupancy on British gardening and explains how the invaders brought a love of outdoor life and culture to Britain that remains an intrinsic part of this nation's devotion to gardening today. Many plants that were first introduced by the Romans, like common box, are now considered to be quintessentially English garden plant...

Faced with smaller gardens, many gardeners today are turning their attention to the special qualities of miniature plants and features. Martin Baxendale offers a guide to the wide variety of effects which can be achieved, beyond merely planting dwarf bulbs or building a rock garden. The author covers small and miniature shrubs, conifers, border perennials, rock plants and bulbs and gives advice applicable to rockgardens, raised beds and wall gardens, planting in paving, planting for gorund-cover...

Shows and analyzes ten representative cottage gardens, offers advice on planning and cultivating a cottage garden, and recommends useful plants.