The Essential Garden Design Workbook

Bookwatch, The, March, 2005

The Essential Garden Design Workbook

Rosemary Alexander

Timber Press

133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland OR 97204-3527

0881926647 $34.95 1-800-327-5680

The Essential Garden Design Workbook is a highly detailed design workbook especially intended for serious home gardeners, students of design, and professionals. Expertly written by Rosemary Alexander (the founder and principal of The English Gardening School), The Essential Garden Design Workbook is illustrated cover-to-cover with simple diagrams and sections of full color photographs. Individual chapters deftly cover necessary research and preparations, how to develop the initial design, what to take into account when finalizing the garden layout plan, creating a planting plan, visualizing and constructing the design, and a host of minor details. The Essential Garden Design Workbook is highly recommended as a detailed instructional for learning to blend individually creative instincts with practical necessities to create truly memorable gardens.