Garden Makeovers: Quick Fixes and Designer Secrets to Transform Your Garden

Garden Style Guide

Garden Makeovers: Quick fixes and designer secrets to transform your garden

This book shows you lots of easy ways that you can transform your garden. None of them involve a huge toolkit or a vast DIY knowledge (not to mention specialist gardening equipment). From making easy paths to instant seating areas, to atmospheric lighting, Garden Makeovers is packed with great ideas for making your garden a place you want to spend time without great expense or vast effort.

Features newly commissioned photography by Steve Gorton Illustrated with specially drawn garden plans Packed with highly practical tips and quick–fix solutions Includes in detail 10 beautiful gardens to inspire

Information.

Introduction.

1. Shapes.

2. Special areas.

3. Paths & steps.

4. Walls.

5. Lighting.

6. Colour.

7. Theme.

8. Decoration.

9. Water.

10. Projects for children.

Inspiration.

Introduction.

1. Terrace.

2. Level changes.

3. Mosaic.

4. Relaxed.

5. Colour.

6. Contemporary.

7. Water wall.

8. Plants.

9. Vegetables.

10. Courtyard.

Directory.

Caroline Tilston is the author of Small Family Gardens (2007) and Modern Family Gardens (2006), John Wiley & Sons. Having worked for over a decade in television production, Caroline retrained as a gardener with the National Trust. For the last ten years, she has been running her own garden design business, The Oak Studio Design Ltd. She also writes for gardening magazines and national newspapers, as well as doing radio broadcasting.

Steve Gorton is an established photographer, with over 20 years experience of working with publishers. He is the photographer of English Eccentric Interiors by Miranda Harrison (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) and Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque by Roy Johnston (John Wiley & Sons, 2007).