Many people consider themselves to be good gardeners, but it takes something extra to put to use a variety of basic design principles to create a garden that is extraordinarily beautiful. This book explains every piece of the gardening puzzle in a friendly, straightforward way. It demystifies the art of designing with plants, offering practical, how-to advice on: Basic Design Techniques; Successfully Using Colour; Extending Seasons; Designing a Year-Round Garden; Using Plants for Special Effects; Ground Cover; Planted Walls; Secrets of Plant Combinations Fine Gardening Design Guides: a new series from one of the most popular international gardening journals offer a distinctive combination of practicality and inspiration, showing how state of the art garden design is done on the other side of the Atlantic. Full colour paperback, with over 170 full colour photographs, design artwork, sidebars, charts, plant lists and photo features provide step-by-step details of every process. New trends and new ideas from America: packed with contributions drawing on the experience and recommendations from fifteen of America's most talented gardening experts.