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A Japanese Touch For Your Garden Description: Colour photographs and step-by-step instructions aim to help the reader create an intimate, tranquil oasis suited to their personal taste - in or outside the home. The book includes layout plans and notes on plant care.... Read More about the "A Japanese Touch For Your Garden" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Frances Lincoln Ltd
Best Borders Description: This practical guide has schemes to inspire every discerning gardener, from planted double borders to modest plantings for a bed of annuals and a narrow town garden. Tony Lord looks behind the scenes to discover how innovative gardeners have planned, planted and maintained herbaceous and mixed borders that are models of excellence. His discussions with the creators of the borders (or with horticulturists familiar with their original intentions), and with the gardeners who maintain them, disclose how each border`s distinctive sytle is achieved.;With insight, Lord uncovers the practical techniques and principles which can be used to achieve coordinated and sophisticated results, as effective at close range as from a distance. Inspirational border plantings include Rita Sackville-West`s Purple Border at Sissinghurst, Christopher Lloyd`s Long Border at Great Dixter and the author`s own designs for a Jekyll-inspired border at Hardwick hall. Tony Lord is the editor of The Plant Finder.... Read More about the "Best Borders" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Frances Lincoln Ltd
Garden Planner Description: This handbook reveals the secrets of professional garden design, and then makes them accessible to everyone, from the keen gardener to the complete beginner.;The book contains designs for gardens of all shapes and sizes, providing practical solutions for varying sites, circumstances and needs. With colour plans and perspective realizations, Robin Williams gives readers the ability to see how the designs translate into three dimensions. Robin Williams is the author of The Garden Designer.... Read More about the "Garden Planner" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Frances Lincoln Ltd
Gardener`s Book Of Colour Description: Andrew Lawson shines a new light on using color in the garden. Whether you want an instant splash of brilliant seasonal color, or a sumptuous border with subtle year-round appeal, you will find out how to achieve it here.... Read More about the "Gardener`s Book Of Colour" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Frances Lincoln Ltd
Gertrude Jekyll`s Colour Schemes For The Flower Garden Description: This magnificent book includes a preface by Richard Bisgrove, an authority on Jekyll and her work. More than 35 superb full-color photographs of gardens supersede the black-and-white pictures of earlier editions and the text is enhanced by delicate illustrations of some of Miss Jekyll`s favorite plants. Her plans have been redrawn and interpreted in color and are supplemented by hitherto unpublished designs.... Read More about the "Gertrude Jekyll`s Colour Schemes For The Flower Garden" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Frances Lincoln Ltd
Scent In Your Garden Description: This guide to creating beautiful, well-designed gardens that are highly scented shows how anyone can add this appealing quality to a garden. It includes a comprehensive catalogue of over 1000 scented plants to grow for their fragrance as well as beauty.;Stephen Lacey discuses how to use scent as an ingredient in a planting scheme. He introduces the fundamental aspects of design with fragrant plants, and explains how to achieve effects that please the eye as well as the sense of smell.;Chapters on structural planting with trees and shrubs, herbaceous borders and ground cover, walled gardens and vertical planting, rock and water gardens, rose and herb gardens and gardening under glass, encompass hundreds of plants, all described in full detail.;Stephen Lacey is author of The Startling Jungle. Andrew Lawson is the photographer for Performance Plants, Rosemary Verey`s Garden Plans, her Good Planting and Penelope Hobhouse On Gardening.... Read More about the "Scent In Your Garden" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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