RHS How to Create your Garden

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Published by DK
By Adam Frost
RRP: £20.00
"A solidly reliable and practical guide to designing, constructing and maintaining your garden, written by an experienced gardener."
"<p>Frost, a Chelsea gold-medal winner, and<br>regular Gardeners' World presenter, is<br>a hand-holding guide, presenting his advice<br>in bite-sized chunks.This practical, well<br>illustrated book is mostly likely to appeal to<br>the neophyte starting from scratch. But there<br>is plenty the more experienced can learn from<br>Frost's detailed designs and planting plans.</p>"
About RHS How to Create your Garden
"Creating a garden doesn't need to be complicated." This is the promise from Adam Frost, BBC Gardeners' World presenter and winner of multiple Chelsea Flower Show gold medals.
Regardless of your experience or budget, with Adam's help and know-how you can design your dream garden, whether it's a small urban garden, a classic cottage garden, a suburban front garden, a low-maintenance space or a city roof terrace. His practical, no-nonsense approach strips away complex garden design concepts and focuses on your needs and preferred garden style to help you plan and build a garden that works for you.
Starting right at the beginning, Adam takes you step by step through the whole process, inspiring you with simple garden design ideas to tackle a full garden makeover or a simple revamp of just one part of your garden, perhaps a tired herbaceous border, a neglected vegetable patch, the patio, or a water feature.
Learn how to design a garden that reflects your practical needs, lifestyle, budget, personality, soil, and climate.
Build it yourself following the clear, uncomplicated step-by-step instructions that show you everything from laying turf to terraces, planting trees or building a raised bed or water feature.
Enjoy it month by month with his simple checklist of what to do when to keep your garden in shape.
RHS How to Create your Garden is about designing an outside space that is real, achievable, and right for you.