Beginner's Guide to Garden Planning and Design: 50 Simple Gardening Ideas for Adding Style & Personality to Your Outdoor Space (Creative Homeowner) Sustainable Gardening, Using Containers, and More
Publisher: Creative Homeowner; First Edition (June 18, 2024)
Language: English
Paperback: 210 pages
ISBN-10: 1580116086
ISBN-13: 978-1580116084
Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
Dimensions: 10 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #336,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,458 in Gardening & Landscape Design
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A Simple Approach to Defining and Designing Your Garden
Get all the guidance you need to create the style of garden that best suits your lifestyle and aesthetic!
Lifelong outdoor enthusiast, garden stylist, coach, and writer, Helen Yoest, will alleviate your concerns and build your confidence as she guides you through the process with ease using her simple approach to garden planning and design. In her comprehensive guide, Helen provides a chapter-by-chapter overview of 50 different garden elements, styles, tips, and techniques to inspire your creativity and build your gardening confidence.
Learn how to apply scale and balance to your garden beds
Explore garden styles including container, rock, vegetable, cottage, and herb gardens
See how to add color and fragrance to your garden and create focal points
Learn about a variety of plants that attract birds, bees, and butterflies
Carve out a space
Learn how to carve out a space for your garden, sketch your idea, prepare a plan (pictured), and adhere to a sense of rhythm, scale, balance, and curb appeal!
Show your style
See how you can display your own style, then learn about bulbs (pictured), container gardens, cottage and country gardens, and formal and informal gardens.
Choose your garden
Discover details on how to grow an herb garden, moss garden (pictured), rock garden, vegetable and wildlife garden, and more!
Color the edges
Explore planting along a fence (pictured), then learn the importance of focal points, movement in the garden, sound and privacy, and garden seating.
Accent your garden
Discover details on how to accent your garden with art, arbors (pictured), covered porches, garden bed edging, foundation plantings, and using water by adding fountains and ponds!
Consider the details
See how to add fragrance in the garden, then learn about garden gates, level changes (pictured), layers of light, mailbox gardens, and garden paths.
Choose additions
Learn about retaining walls (pictured), garden houses, trellises, planning for kids in the garden, how to attract birds, bees, and butterflies, plus details on critter control!
Seasonal planning
Get the details on energy conservation, gardening for the season, layering the landscape, water-wise gardening, and more!