Landscape Your Garden

Remember, you do not have to be a qualified landscape architect to design your own garden. All you need is to be shown a few tricks of the trade, and your own good taste will do the rest. You will end up with a delightful garden, which works well for you.

Bill Simpson's approach to landscape design for small gardens, is based on years of experience as a gardener working in first class gardens, involving considerable landscape development. He was a City Superintendent of Parks and Gardens and worked for many years with top flight landscape architects on landscape constructions.

This unique blend of practical hands-on experience and theory is now available to you in this book. Chapters include: Computer-aided design; Drawing up a plan of house and garden; Colour and fragrance; Groundcovers and lawn alternatives; Hedges and Windbreaks; Water features; Herbs, fruit and vegetables; Watering systems; Site observation; Garden plants and their uses; Trees, shrubs and climbers; Lawns; Rose gardens; Rock gardens; Cottage gardens; Walls, driveways, paths and steps.