Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Planting Design Books -
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Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy.

In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:-

• Garden Style - The overall style of the garden — Cottage, Japanese, Feng-Shui, Informal, Formal, Wildlife Friendly etc - dictates which following design and plant books are suitable to use
• Garden Design - gives design methodologies to follow for the Garden Style chosen.
• Garden Planting Design gives planting design ideas for the beds of the overall garden design chosen above.
• Wildlife gives details concerning wildlife that could be found in gardens, their lifestyle and how to encourage them to your garden.
• Location of Plants shows which plants should be grouped together for its soil, shade, colour for the garden style chosen.
• Plant Association shows which plant combinations give a pleasing colour combination or foliage contrast.
• Plant Types gives growing conditions of a particular family of plants, i.e. Primulas, with lists of where suitable and finally
• Plant Species gives data about a particular family of plants in restricted format.

The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction.

Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:-

• Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden,
• Garden Cultivation gives specific data about growing vegetables in a kitchen garden, or fruit in an orchard, or lawns, ponds etc,
• Propagation gives details on how to propagate new plants from seed, division or grafting,
• Garden Pests includes information on garden pests and diseases with their control and
• Garden Tips gives tips on different parts of gardening.

Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section.

Title

ISBN

Author

Pictures of

Content

A Garden for all seasons

0 276 42011 X

The Reader's Digest Association Limited

Colour photos of plants and gardens

If you use the all-seasons plants as your framework for the garden for the year, then choose plants for spring, summer, autumn or winter for a section of your garden. Follow this by using the 'Bridging the Seasons' features, which offer guidelines for companion planting with a view to providing continued attraction through the year.

The Plant Selector table at the back gives the spread or planting distance, which is very usefull to prevent overcrowding of the plants within 5 years of planting. Since the plants have been selected for their visual appeal, reliability, ease of cultivation and most of all for their seasonal contribution, the resulting garden will be colourfull throughout the required seasons. Use the planting effects from "The Royal Horticultural Society Really Small Gardens" book (from this section of the library) to provide a series of well planned garden beds with style.

Architectural Foliage - Shape, form and texture of foliage plants in garden design

0-7063-6962-9

Jill Billington

Line drawings

How to design associations of plants. Plant association in diagrammatic form of shapes of plant form with number, repetition, contrast and line. Textural linking with coarse surfaces, ribbed leaves, shiny surfaces, prickles, wooly leaves, mat-forming leaves, velvet foliage, tapestry textures, lush grassy foliage. Co-operative colour with greens, greys, blues, reds, yellows, whites and marbled. Style.

Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden

Drought-resistant planting through the year

0-7112-1425-5

Beth Chatto

Colour photos of plants suitable for gravel

A complete record of how best to plant in gravel to give flower and foliage with very drought resistant plants.

Camellias, the complete guide to their cultivation and use

0-7134-7993-0

Jennifer Trehane

200 descriptions some with photographs. Essay on Use of camellias in the garden

Clematis

0-7513-0686-X

Charles Chesshire

50 clematis

Use of clematis in a border planting. Descriptions with photographs. Clematis maintenance.

Colour in the Winter Garden

0-297-83346-4

Graham Stuart Thomas

Essays on different types of plant suitable for winter colour with good descriptions in tables

Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden

0-907462-17-0

Gertrude Jekyll

Gardens and planting plans

How to produce planting plans of colour and composition that are harmonious

Colourful Gardening Climbers

1-900518-80-5

Richard Ross

Climbing plants

Scented, foliage, flowers and tender climbers descriptions with photographs

Courtyard and Terrace Gardens

0-304-32044-7

Robert Pearson, George Preston, Jack Elliott and Ray Waite

Flowers

4 books - gardening in a small space, climbing and wall plants, growing dwarf bulbs, and gardening in ornamental containers with plant description essays

Creating Garden Ponds and Water Features

0-00-710660-2

Debbie Roberts and Ian Smith

Water gardens, plants and construction photos

Gives design choices and sections on wildlife ponds, installation, planting, plant selector, fish selector and maintenance

Designing with Plants

1-84091-056-0

Piet Oudolf

143 garden planting schemes and effects

Designing using mostly perennials to create sculptural planting schemes with an impression and expression of nature. Key perennial and ornamental grasses plant directory

Flower Arranging

0-86318-434-0

Malcom Hillier

Flowers, flower arrangements and diagrams

The complete practical guide to choosing, preparing and arranging fresh and dries flowers for every occasion. Directory of flower plants and foliage plants to plant in garden for flower arranger

Flowering Shrubs

0-7513-0687-8

Charles Chesshire

Planting plans and plants

Recommended flowering-shrub descriptions with photographs and plant lists. RHS book. Thin book

Garden Birds How to Attract Them and Identify Them

1-85076-352-6

Mike Everett

Birds

100 most common birds good descriptions with colour photo. Table of feeding requirements for these birds. Essay on plants suitable for birds

Garden Design

0+86273-297-2

Michael Upward

Gardens and plans

Starter design data with cultivar data plant lists

Garden Graphics

0-670-84080-7

Gemma Nesbitt

950 plant graphics with 29 existing garden plans, photograph and plant list

1350 outline graphics of plants and garden architecture to record/design your garden with its shapes and infilled flower colours

Rosa Adelaide D'Orleans