Learn how to keep your lawn in perfect condition all year round with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener. It's packed with invaluable advice on all aspects of lawn design, creation and maintenance, whether you want an immaculate striped formal lawn or a more hardwearing surface for your children to play on, or even a romantic chamomile lawn or one strewn with colourful spring flowers. It includes incredibly useful troubleshooting tips for the typical problems your lawn might experience, including invasive weeds, pests and diseases and the effects of the weather. The author discusses which types of mower work best for different lawns, when and how to water and feed, and how to bring a neglected lawn back to life. He even dabbles in artificial turf and how best to use it, and offers creative ideas for decorative elements such as stepping stones, edgings and winding paths. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this practical guide contains everything you need to keep your lawn in tip-top condition, every day of the year.

Judith Lywood's aim is to offer a new approach to garden design. It need not be costly, complex nor daunting. This book is full of ideas and practical information that will help you to quickly and easily transform even the most unpromising patch into a charming area that you, your family and friends will cherish. Within this book, Judith Lywood has developed ten garden designs, with beautiful illustrations and plant descriptions. Several of the designs encompass areas for growing fruit and vegetables adding attraction and interest to the planting scheme. These designs can be reproduced as a complete design, or adapted to fit your outdoor space, be it a small, narrow, medium size or a full family garden. The book includes an easy to follow construction guide with detailed illustrations along with guidance and advice for successfully growing your crops. All the designs and planting schemes have been chosen with the aim of giving enchanting views from your home with an attractive place outside to relax in privacy.

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers. In this short history, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation.

This eBook is a basic guide for beginners who are new to gardening. The aim is to teach you the key elements of gardening and improve your knowledge. From this book, you will learn how to check the soil and dirt. Learn how to plant fruits, herbs and vegetables. The book will also take an in-depth look at all the gardening tools and how they can be used to maintain a perfect garden throughout the year.

Landscape Design for the Homeowner is a concise little reference that makes the topic easily understandable for anyone contemplating a landscape planting project. The design principles discussed are applicable for homeowners as well as small business owners or even large commercial projects. You will save time, money and heartache by reading the tips here before tackling any landscape planting project.