A Handbook for Garden Designers
by Rosemary Alexander with Karena Batstone
This handbook is a comprehensive, practical guide to garden design. From carrying out the initial survey to presenting a finished design to the client, it provides the expertise necessary to create gardens of all kinds and all sizes. Including over a hundred plans, drawings, diagrams and photographs this book is packed with practical advice, tips and techniques as well as detailed guidance on producing professional plans and graphics.
The Garden Makers Manual
by Rosemary Alexander & Richard Sneesby
This manual covers all aspects of hard landscaping and structures – from paving and paths to water features, lighting, shelter, walls, and fences. Those aspiring garden designers looking for an excellent introduction to the art of landscaping, but who are not ready for Rosemary’s more definitive Essential Garden Design Workbook, will want to have this book. It is an accessible and practical approach to garden landscaping written by the experts at The English Gardening School. With 150 photographs and 150 drawings, this manual will be a timeless reference.
The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook
by Rosemary Alexander
This book takes over where Rosemary Alexander’s first book leaves off. With the newly designed garden in place how do you manage the work in a garden and keep it looking good year in and year out? How do you prune, look after your soil and keep spring bulb plantings looking good? Is it possible to move a plant and how do you cope with weeds, pests, and diseases? Which plants are top performers and which are best for particular functions like internal and external boundaries, focal points, disguising eyesores and providing year-round interest? With its hand-holding, workbook approach The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook is the next best thing to having a daily training session with expert gardener, Rosemary Alexander. It allows gardeners at all levels to confidently tackle garden maintenance jobs, develop new skills, and make a success of their gardens however stretched for time.
Dear Christo
Foreword by Beth Chatto Preface by Fergus Garrett & Rosemary Alexander
In this intimate collection of written and photographic contributions, Christopher Lloyd’s wide circle of family and friends describe what Great Dixter means to them. Food, poetry, music and plants feature large, and house visitors remember the feel of the centuries – old floor boards under foot, the thrill of waking up early to peer out on topiary enshrouded in fog, and many contributors describe how in one way or another, Great Dixter changed their lives.