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. An excellent accessible and practical introduction to the art of landscaping, before moving to Rosemary’s definitive Essential Garden Design Workbook.
The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook
by Rosemary Alexander
Following on from Rosemary’s first book, the newly designed garden in place how do you manage the work in a garden and keep it looking good? How do you prune, look after your soil and keep spring bulb plantings looking good? Can you move a plant, coping with weeds, pests and diseases? Which plants are top performers and which are best for particular functions like boundaries, focal points, disguising eyesores and providing year-round interest? The next best thing to having a daily training session with expert gardener Rosemary Alexander, allowing gardeners at all levels to confidently tackle garden maintenance jobs, develop new skills and make a success of their gardens.
Dear Christo
Foreword by Beth Chatto Preface by Fergus Garrett & Rosemary Alexander
In this intimate collection of written and photographic contributions, Christopher Lloyd’s family and friends describe what Great Dixter means to them. Food, poetry, music and plants. Contributors describe how Great Dixter changed their lives.