Designing Beds Borders

Guide to creating beds and borders for a beautiful garden.

A how-to guide to siting, designing, and planting beds and borders, including growing information on hundreds of appropriate flowers and shrubs, answers to gardening questions, and tips from professionals.

Presents garden design projects for creating small and large gardens with a variety of light conditions, with ideas for individual plantings in beds and borders.

Beds and borders provide the framework for a garden, but it can be a daunting task to design and plant them. This book provides exciting planting ideas and schemes for borders that are full of shrubs and perennials, and burst with colour and vitality throughout the year. Written by a respected garden designer, it includes diagrams for gardens and plant profiles so you can match the plant you need to the look you want. * Advice on drawing a plan and designing a border * Step-by-step guide to deciding which plants to use * Over twenty border plans for different aspects and soil types * New ideas for colour and structure * Easy to use tables to identify the right plant for every spot AUTHOR: Roger Harvey runs courses on garden design from his nursery, Harvey Garden Plants in Suffolk. He has exhibited and won gold at Chelsea Flower Show several times, and specializes in growing hellebores as well as woodland and shade loving plants. SELLING POINTS: * A practical guide to what and how to plant borders to transform every garden * Includes diagrams and plant profiles so you can match the plant to the look you want * Gives over twenty borders plans and easy to use tables identify the right plant for every spot * Aimed at all gardeners and the home market, eg interior designers ILLUSTRATIONS: 150 colour photographs

Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops - without back-breaking effort! Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well now you can! By following the simple steps set out in No Dig, in just a few short hours you can revolutionize your vegetable patch with plants already in the ground from day one! Charles Dowding is on a mission to teach that there is no need to dig over the soil, but by minimizing intervention you are actively boosting soil productivity. In fact, The less you dig, the more you preserve soil structure and nurture the fungal mycelium vital to the health of all plants. This is the essence of the No Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime growing vegetables. So put your gardening gloves on and get ready to discover: - Guides and calendars of when to sow, grow, and harvest. - Inspiring information and first-hand guidance from the author - “Delve deeper” features look in-depth at the No Dig system and the facts and research that back it up. - The essential role of compost and how to make your own at home. - The importance of soil management, soil ecology, and soil health. Now one of the hottest topics in environmental science, this "wood-wide web" has informed Charles's practice for decades, and he's proven it isn't just trees that benefit - every gardener can harness the power of the wood-wide web. Featuring newly- commissioned step-by-step photography of all stages of growing vegetables and herbs, and all elements of No Dig growing, shot at Charles’s beautiful market garden in Somerset, you too will be able to grow more veg with less time and effort, and in harmony with nature - so join the No Dig revolution today! A must-have volume for followers of Charles Dowding who fervently believe in his approach to low input, high yield gardening, as well as gardeners who want to garden more lightly on the earth, with environmentally friendly techniques like organic and No Dig.

Create a foliage-driven garden that dazzles! Although seductive, flowers, by their fleeting nature, are a fickle base to provide long-lasting gardens with year-round interest. Tackle this problem with the advice in Gardening with Foliage First. Learn how to first build a framework of foliage and then layer in flowers and other artistic elements as the finishing touches. This simple, recipe-style approach to garden design features 127 combinations for both sunny and shady gardens that work for a variety of climates and garden challenges.

“Fear deer no more! The best source I’ve seen on the topic!” —Tracy DiSabato-Aust, award-winning garden designer and best-selling author Deer are one of the most common problems a gardener can face. These cute but pesky animals can quickly devour hundreds of dollars’ worth of plants. And common solutions include the use of unattractive fencing and chemicals. In Deer-Resistant Design, Karen Chapman offers another option—intentional design choices that result in beautiful gardens that coexist with wildlife. Deer-Resistant Design showcases real home gardens across North America—from a country garden in New Jersey to a hilltop hacienda in Texas—that have successfully managed the presence of deer. Each homeowner also shares their top ten deer-resistant plants, all welcome additions to a deer-challenged gardeners shopping list. A chapter on deer-resistant container gardens provides suggestions for making colorful, captivating, and imaginative containers. Lushly illustrated and filled with practical advice and inspiring design ideas, Deer-Resistant Design is packed with everything you need to confidently tackle this challenging problem.

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Smart ideas for creating varied, versatile, and long-lasting planting plans for beds and borders.Beds and borders form the backbone of a well-planned garden, and this invaluable guide offers everything you need to know about shaped beds, house-side borders, walk-through borders, and waterside planting. Among the 20 projects are a traditional rose bed, a single-colour island bed, a cottage-flower pather border, a dry-climate border, a scented pathway, and a formal parterre. 20 superbly illustrated projects on fold-out pages with easy-to-follow instructions--specially devised by a highly experienced gardener. With plenty of practical tips and wise advice on basic gardening techniques.

Covers mixed garden design concepts, exploring color, texture, form, principles, and maintenance.