Garden Styles: An Essential Guide

Whether your garden is large or small, in the town or the country, you can create your own distinctive style, drawing inspiration from the past as well as looking to the future. This book offers very different and inspirational styles from around the world to encourage you to try something new in your own garden. Exploring garden designs from ancient to modern, it gives an overview of eleven different styles: introducing their history, analyzing their key elements, and giving practical tips and a plant list for each. Garden styles covered include classic, informal, cottage, Mediterranean and dry, exotic and sub-tropical, Japanese, Islamic, modern, water, and future.