The Small Garden

John Brookes

Your garden is a place to be lived in and enjoyed.  It should be easy to maintain yet full of variety and colour throughout the year.  In reality the small garden is ofter far from this ideal. Now, however, for the first time, with the help of this unique book you can become your own garden designer and create an imaginative garden suited to the way you live and the time you have available.

The practical side of designing a small garden is covered in detail from testing your soil to measuring the site and drawing up a plan.  A wide variety of fencing and paving materials are available to today’s gardener: this book illustrates them all and describes with the help of step by step illustrations how to best use them.

However The Small Garden is not simply a working manual:  it is an inspiring catalogue of original gardening ideas.  Over thirty-five gardens to illustrate a wide variety of approaches to the problems of designing and planting a small garden, and the accompanying plans make it easy to borrow or adapt them.  In addition the author has selected over six hundred plants, from ground cover to decorative climbers, to meet all the requirements of a small garden.

This book will be welcomed by everyone who has a garden.  The wealth of ideas contained in the 600 colour illustrations together with the practical approach of the authoritative text will provide you with all the information you need to create a beautiful and practical garden of your own.