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Design Your Garden
10 Steps to Design Revolution In Your Garden

by Diarmuid Gavin

0756603730
192 pages, 8 x 10 1/4
full-color photographs, full-color illustrations, b&w illustrations
Hardcover

Today's most innovative designer, Diarmuid Gavin, has designed and built an extraordinary number of contemporary gardens for a growing army of enthusiastic clients. If you want to learn how to design the Diarmuid way, and join his garden design revolution, Design Your Garden is the book you have been waiting for.

In this practical guidebook, today's most innovative garden designer shows us how to take a fresh look at how we use our gardens and encourages us to choose the kind of styles that we find appealing. Then, ten, easy-to-follow stages explain the basics of good design, from assessing the plot and considering its shape and situation, to using plants to achieve particular styles and effects.