Garden Design. Planning, building, and planting your perfect outdoor space

361 Pages·2009·120.6 MB·English

by  Chris Young

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LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE, DELHI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Chris Young
CONTRIBUTORS Zia Allaway,Andi Clevely, Christine Dyer,
Jenny Hendy, Richard Sneesby, Fiona Wild,
Vicky Willan, Paul Williams, Andrew Wilson
SENIOR EDITOR Zia Allaway
SENIOR ART EDITOR Joanne Doran
EDITORS Christine Dyer, Diana Galligan, Caroline Reed,
Sarah Ruddick, Fiona Wild, Vicky Willan
USEDITOR Rebecca Warren
DESIGNERS Vanessa Hamilton, Vicky Read,
Alison Shackleton, Pamela Shiels
DESIGN ASSISTANT Francesca Gormley
AIREDALE PUBLISHING Ruth Prentice, David Murphy, Murdo Culver
PHOTOGRAPHERS Peter Anderson, Brian North
ILLUSTRATORS Peter Bull Associates, Richard Lee, Peter Thomas
PLAN VISUALIZERS Joanne Doran, Vicky Read
JACKET DESIGN Mark Cavanagh, Alison Donovan
PICTURE RESEARCH Lucy Claxton, Mel Watson
PRODUCTION EDITOR Maria Elia
PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Mandy Inness
MANAGINGEDITOR Anna Kruger
MANAGING ART EDITOR Alison Donovan
PUBLISHER Jonathan Metcalf
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Liz Wheeler
ART DIRECTOR Bryn Walls
First American Edition, 2009
First published in United States in 2009
by DK Publishing, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014
RD106 March 2009
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Text copyright © 2009 Royal Horticultural Society and Dorling Kindersley Limited
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Contents
6 FOREWORD
Chris Young, Editor-in-Chief
10 HOW TO DESIGN
A comprehensive guide to the principles of garden design,
and how you can apply them to create a design of your own.
First principles 20 Choosing materials 52
Designing with plants 72 Assessing your garden 90
Creating a plan 100 Design case study 118
126 CHOOSING A STYLE
From formal and foliage to Modernist and Mediterranean,
explore the history and key ingredients of these major
design styles and find inspiration for your own garden.
Garden styles explained 128 Formal gardens 132
Cottage gardens 140 Mediterranean gardens 148
Modernist gardens 156 Japanese gardens 164
Foliage gardens 172 Fusion gardens 180
Productive gardens 188 Family gardens 196
Sustainable gardens 204 Urban gardens 212
Country gardens 220 Concept gardens 228
234 MAKING A GARDEN
All the practical information and step-by-step guides
you need to bring your garden designs to life.
Building garden structures 238 Planting techniques 256
268 PLANT AND MATERIALS GUIDE
Expert advice to help you choose the perfect plant for
any situation, and the right materials for your design.
Plant guide 270 Materials guide 330
Index 342 Acknowledgements 352
Suppliers 358 Designers’ details 360
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7
Foreword
HAVE YOU EVER SAT—just sat—in your garden, thinking, looking
around, taking in the view? Not really looking at anything in particular, but
thinking about anything and everything to do with your garden, asking
yourself, “what if I planted a tree there?”, or, “if I moved those slabs, what
would I put in their place?”. Whether you were aware of doing this or not is,
in a way, immaterial because what you have been doing is visually making this
piece of land your own, and coming up with thoughts and ideas for improving
your outside space. Welcome then—whether it be for the first or fiftieth
time—to the world of garden design.
The concept of garden design is nothing new: when Man first cultivated land,
and enclosed his arable crops and livestock, he was delineating usable space to
its best advantage. This may not be design as we understand it now (obviously,
aesthetics were of no practical value then), but he was making spatial
relationships based on need. He was designing his environment to suit his
individual daily, monthly, and yearly requirements.
Since that time, the process of creating a garden has evolved according to
style, fashion, prowess, skill, aptitude, wealth, travel, experimentation, and
history, but it can all be distilled down to that first need. In essence, it is
all about a human being exerting some level of control over his or her own
surroundings. And, really, that is all garden design is today.
As is set out by my fellow authors in this book, creating a garden can be
an intricate and time-consuming process, but the fundamental starting point
is to remember that garden design is about creating an outside space that you
(or your client) want. Many discussions will ensue after that initial thought—
WELCOME IN
Successful garden design from what style you want, to working out how sustainable your garden might
is about creating usable,
attractive, and well-made be, but don’t let the detail bog you down too early in the process. Of course
spaces that suit the
owner’s personal needs. detail is essential for a successful garden, but holding on to that vision, that
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8 FOREWORD
desire, is a key part of the process. This book will help you, not only with the
nuts and bolts of garden making, but also to focus the vision and, I hope, help
make it become a reality.
So why is there a need for such an encyclopedia? In truth, because designing
a garden can be something of a lonely experience. Even though we are
constantly bombarded with images, suggestions, and information (too much
choice, one might say), it is rare to be able to look in one place for everything
—from plant selection to gravel color, from fence posts to tree heights. The
very nature of having so much choice can render the designer/gardener/client
more than a little confused as to what they actually want from their garden.
The activity of making a garden can also be influenced from so many
quarters—from horticultural collections to urban material manufacturing—
that a designer needs a refuge of sorts, where questions are answered and
problems resolved. I hope this book will be that refuge in an ever-crowded,
information-obsessed world.
i PLAN YOUR PLAN k GOOD FORM PERSONAL SPACE
Putting your ideas onto Successful designs use Good design should reflect
paper, or computer, is flower color, leaf shape, the wishes, likes, and
an essential step when and tree stems to create a dislikes of the garden
designing your garden. balance of color and form. owner—regardless of the
country or climate.
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FOREWORD 9
In many cases, deciding on what you want your garden to be like is initially
the hardest, but then the easiest part of the process. It is translating that vision
into a reality that takes the bulk of the time: working out how parts of a garden
can sit together, how planting interest throughout the year can be sustained,
deciding on hard landscaping materials that will work in all weather conditions,
and so on. These are the stimulating—and at times frustrating—aspects of the
process, but they make the difference between an unusable piece of land
adjoining your property and a beautifully designed garden.
The chapters in this book take you through these very stages of garden
design, helping to demystify the unknowns and clarify the unclear. I sincerely
hope you enjoy it and, as a result, make the best garden you possibly can.
CHRIS YOUNG
CONSIDERED STYLE i URBAN JUNGLE k SENSE OF SCALE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
Successful spaces are Using foliage plants of When creating a plan, Sometimes, beautiful
created when planting different types and heights working to a scale allows design expressions can
colors and combinations can help to provide privacy you to be sure that all be created by mirroring
complement the hard from neighboring views structures and details will shapes, like this sculpture
landscaping materials. and offers useful shelter. work well on the ground. and round-flowered Allium.
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