Your Garden Design Book by John Brookes

Your Garden Design Book

by John Brookes

Lothian Publishing Company, 1991, [First Edition], ISBN 0850914043, full colour photographs, illustrations, diagrams, colour photographic double title page, decorated endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping and chipping (see photographs)

“Whether you want to redesign your existing garden or are creating a new garden from scratch, this is the book that reveals the john Brookes course in design, giving you the ideas in practical information to plan a garden to suit your needs, in harmony with the home and its surrounds.
John Brookes takes you step-by-step through every stage in creating your own design blueprints, from the easy-to-learn skills for measuring your garden and drawing up a plan, to judging scale, using pattern and siting plants.  He shows you how to give your garden a coherent style by the appropriate choice of surfaces and enclosures as well as accessories, such as furniture and sculpture.  He approaches planting from a design viewpoint, focusing on the plants’ visual potential and showing how to integrate them successfully into your design.”