A Dutch garden designer and nurseryman presents the concepts behind his distinctive landscapes which emphasize form, texture, light, movement, and elements of surprise as well as color

Since the eighteenth century, when Pope and Addison meditated deeply on gardens, there has been very little critical discussion of gardens and gardening. This collection of essays aims to redress that balance, renewing the connection between gardening and the wider intellectual and cultural world.

Product Description: Home gardeners with a keen interest in design, as well as professional landscape designers, will find invaluable advice in this new approach. The book focuses on the general principles behind creating successful and beautiful plant combinations in both time and space-working with perennials in the context of trees, shrubs, and the surrounding landscape...read more

Noel Kingsbury surveys the work of several designers ranging from Penelope Hobhouse and Piet Oudolf to the comparatively unknown, arranged thematically according to the contributions their examples can make to the ordinary domestic garden.

Product Description: This handbook of stylish borders to copy at home includes an introduction to the basic principles of border design and care, and a profile of each designer and their work. Each designer has contributed four original designs with borders for every situation, season and taste...read more

With the growing recognition that a wisely and sensitively planted garden has a lot to offer to wildlife and the food web, more and more people are looking for ways to make their gardens environmentally friendly. However, gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. In Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, renowned plantsman Noël Kingsbury refutes that presumption, showing how even in a small garden you can create a sustainable ecosystem that looks great --- and, once established, largely looks after itself. More than 150 glorious photographs of small natural gardens provide visual confirmation of Noël Kingsbury's contention that even the smallest garden can provide a natural haven.

A common-sense handbook on planting for every type of garden. Among the 25 planting plans there are family gardens, low-maintenance gardens, a herb garden, a rose garden, a white border or a pastel one, a Japanese garden or a classical one, and even plans for window boxes.