Book Review: The Garden Floor
Karen How many gardeners focus on the garden floor? I for one, take itfor granted and assume it will be grass unless there is a compelling reason to do something else.…
Book Review: Dream Plants for the Natural Garden
The allure of small, low maintenance gardens combined with water shortages and a desire for sustainability has led to a growing interest in “natural gardens”. Author’s Piet Oudolf and Henk…
Book Review: Design Ideas for Your Garden
The magnificent British gardens belonging to the National Trust are a treasure trove of great ideas to inspire any gardener. Jacq Barber’s book, Design Ideas for your Garden, presents a…
Book Review: Design Your Garden
Designing a garden may be an overwhelming task and Diarmuid Garvin’s book,Design Your Garden, can be a great help. Whether you are starting from scratch or redoing an old garden…
Book Review: Contemporary Designers Own Gardens
Have you ever wondered what the garden of a famous garden designer’s garden looks like? Is it like the commissioned ones? Totally different? Or somewhere in between? Barbara Baker’s book,…
Book Review: Clondeglass: Creating a Garden Paradise
Dermont O’Neil, journalist, TV and radio personality, and gardener, takes the reader with him as he realizes his dream. As a child he had seen a walled garden that inspired…
Book Review: Claude Monets Gardens at Giverny
Thoughts of Monet’s garden at Giverny brings up images of a Japanese bridge and water lilies. Do you envision the water lilies and bridge in the spring? In the winter,…
Book Review: Chelsea Flower Show: The First 100 years, 1913-2013
The Chelsea Flower Show is not the biggest flower show in the world but it is probably the most prestigious and influential. Brent Elliot’s book, Chelsea Flower Show: The first…
Book Review: Woodland Garden
To many gardeners shade implies problems but Beth Chatto sees shade as an advantage. In her book, Woodland Garden, she describes over five hundred plants that she grows in her…
Book Review: Backyard Blueprints
If you have a small backyard with little charm but also harbor a big desire for a private paradise, consider this very helpful book by David Stevens. In Backyard Blueprints,…