Tip TNH Bringing you news, opinion and support every day costs money. Tip us, and help us keep going. Let's look through some books I recommend both for planning and daydreaming through the cold weather doldrums. Whether you have a new yard to design or want to add enhancing features to and existing garden, Garden Design Made Easy offers bountiful possibilities.
Gardening involves more than just growing healthy vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
It is also desirable to make the garden a pleasing and harmonious part of your daily life. Tim Newbury is an award winning British landscaper whose talent and expertise show in his design layouts, which are also illustrated with a combination of eye delighting watercolor sketches, and photographs that I want to walk right into. The designs show how to manage both conventionally and unusually shaped garden plots, and offer possibilities arranged specifically for low cost starter gardens, low maintenance gardens, formal gardens, plant lover's gardens, and family gardens that include children's play areas. His way of presenting water treatments is particularly effective, and offers options in a range from simple bubble fountains and water spouts, all the way through to ponds. I went from feeling that a water feature would be too complex for me, to feeling that, working with his suggestions, I'd be comfortable including some in my own designs.