City Garden Andi Clevely

Name: City Garden By Andi Clevely
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City Garden by Andi Clevely

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Summary

City Garden explores the challenges and the advantages of gardening in built-up surroundings and shows you how to make the most of your urban space.

City Garden Summary

City Garden by Andi Clevely

Do you yearn for a tranquil retreat in busy surroundings, a healing sanctuary, or a convenient stage for entertaining, dining and family gatherings? A garden in town can provide any or all of these. City Garden explores the challenges and the advantages of gardening in built-up surroundings and shows you how to make the most of your urban space.

Andi Clevely provides clear guidance on such essentials as: organizing ground space; being inventive with levels; steps, slopes, shelves, balconies and hanging gardens; enhancing the view; making use of borrowed features; real and false perspectives; storage and utilities; plants and planting; making the most of the increased warmth and shelter offered by a garden in town.

City Garden Reviews

Aimed principally at amateurs, it nevertheless contains a wealth of inspiration for the professional designer, including ways to adapt the 'borrowed' landscape to make the most of views, and how to exploit perspective. There's plenty of excellent photography to show to clients in order for them to get a feel for their preferred style. The text will even reaffirm their decision to call you in, as the author helpfully mentions how useful it can be to employ a designer in a challenging space. Garden Design Journal If I had been given this book for Christmas when I was new to gardening and planning my first city garden, I would have been delighted. Cottage Gardener A short and snappy introduction to city-garden design for beginners. The author's expertise is expressed in a clear and practical manner. His obvious enthusiasm has some appeal for those urbanites who want a simple initiation into the complexities of city-garden design. Garden

About Andi Clevely

Andi Clevely has spent thirty-five years as a working gardener. After taking a degree in English at Oxford he began his gardening career on the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park. Thereafter he was for many years employed as head gardener in private service (initially for J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes). He now lives in Wales, where he writes about gardening and tends his own hillside garden. His many books include Patios, Water in the Garden, City Garden, Plants in Pots and the bestselling Allotment Garden. As a journalist he writes regularly for The Garden, Homes and Gardens, The Field and BBC Gardener's World Magazine. In 2003 he won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for Practical Journalist of the Year.

Award-winning photographer Steven Wooster specializes in the photography of gardens and plants. He lives in London.

Additional information

Sku

GOR003769750

ISBN 13

9780711227859

ISBN 10

0711227853

Title

City Garden by Andi Clevely

Author

Andi Clevely

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

Year published

20080328

Number of pages

112

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us