The Creative Gardener
Inspiration and Advice to Create the Space You Want
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- 10٫99 US$
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- 10٫99 US$
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Clever ideas and imaginative solutions from BBC Gardeners' World host Adam Frost to help you transform your garden, element by element, into a personalized dream space.
Adam shows how small plantings, design flourishes, hands-on creative projects, and simple hard landscaping projects can help transform your garden. Taking an artisan's approach to his own garden, Adam emphasizes how you too can find inspiration and turn it into a garden feature, how to personalize your ideas - using what you already have - and upcycling. There's something to suit everyone's taste, space, and budget.
Each project starts with Adam's inspiration, and then walks the reader through how he created the end product with clear step-by-step photography and instructions. Adam shows that inspiration doesn't have to come from other gardens. In fact, for him, it rarely does. It could be a natural feature such as a heap of wood, something you already own, or a salvage yard item you can upcycle. With a little work and a dash of imagination, you can create something truly personal in the garden and create the atmosphere you want, while developing your skills and enjoying the creative process.
Well known for his straightforward, clear presentation, and his award-winning design ideas, Adam combines these skills to offer realistic, achievable, impactful suggestions for transforming your space. Element by element, a weekend at a time, he can help you create the garden you've always wanted.
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Gardens are set up as spaces for personalization in this clever offering from Frost, host of BBC's Gardeners' World. He lays out how to find inspiration and emphasizes the importance of customizing a garden, then offers up 30 projects for sprucing up an outside space, which require a "basic toolset" consisting of standard gardening goods, plus some woodworking tools and landscaping equipment such as a drill, level, and carpenter's square. Readers will learn how to make their own "woodland container" for flowers and a "green roof log store," as well as a birdbath, a sparrow terrace, and a cute toad house. Furniture projects are the "best opportunity" for individualizing a garden, he posits, and those on offer here include a coffee-table planter and a simple log seat. (For the latter, Frost reminds chainsaw handlers to make sure "you can get to the nearest hospital quickly.") Along the way, he makes a solid case that gardening is important "not only because it's good for the environment and boosts biodiversity, but also because it helps us slow down, be present in the moment, and appreciate the natural world." Gardeners ready to move beyond plants should check this out.
