The Essential Garden Design Workbook
Completely Revised and Expanded
Published on 8. August 2017
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-60469-661-5 (ISBN)
Description
A bestselling classic completely revised and updated
The Essential Garden Design Workbook has been the go-to guide for students, professionals, and any gardener passionate about well-designed outdoor spaces.
Now, eminent designer-educator Rosemary Alexander has teamed up with rising design star Rachel Myers for a complete update. New garden plans, new photos and diagrams, and updated profiles of 50 top plants offer timely insights for today's designers. Advice on designing for sustainability and diversity has been added, along with guidance on planning for garden spaces large and small, using computer-aided design, and starting a garden design business.
Detailed sections that lead you through the entire process-pre-design, concept, layout, planning, planting, and maintenance-are more relevant than ever. Invaluable for experienced pros and the next generation alike, this expanded classic is for anyone interested in designing beautiful, successful gardens.
The Essential Garden Design Workbook has been the go-to guide for students, professionals, and any gardener passionate about well-designed outdoor spaces.
Now, eminent designer-educator Rosemary Alexander has teamed up with rising design star Rachel Myers for a complete update. New garden plans, new photos and diagrams, and updated profiles of 50 top plants offer timely insights for today's designers. Advice on designing for sustainability and diversity has been added, along with guidance on planning for garden spaces large and small, using computer-aided design, and starting a garden design business.
Detailed sections that lead you through the entire process-pre-design, concept, layout, planning, planting, and maintenance-are more relevant than ever. Invaluable for experienced pros and the next generation alike, this expanded classic is for anyone interested in designing beautiful, successful gardens.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
157 color photos and 351 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60469-661-5 (9781604696615)
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Founder and Principal of The English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London, Rosemary Alexander writes and lectures worldwide on garden design. She has worked on a wide range of gardens throughout the world. For eleven years she was tenant of the National Trust property, Stoneacre, in Kent, where she created a romantic, old world garden. She now lives in Hampshire where she has made a new garden. Rachel Myers is a garden designer based in Oxfordshire. She has designed gardens in France, Belgium, and Colombia. At the English Gardening School, Rachel lectures on both garden design and practical horticulture diploma courses as well as overseeing and grading all plant portfolios. Her work has been featured in numerous books and magazines, including The Book of Garden Plans, The Book of Small Garden Plans, and Gardens Illustrated.