Garden Planting Design (S-T): Garden Design

Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Planting Design Books - S-T				Library Pages Library Introduction Site Map Garden Style Garden Design:- A-G G-H J-T T-W Garden Planting Design:- A-G G-L L-S S-T* T-Y Location of Plants:- A-G G-T T-W Plant Association:- A-R T-W Plant Types:- A-H H-S T-T Plant Species:- A-E F-M M-T T-W Gardening:- A-S S-Y Garden Cultivation Propagation Garden Pests Garden Tips Practical Projects:- A-H H-S S-T T-Y Wildlife Reference Library Miscellaneous Health
Site Map Links Case Studies Companion Planting Garden Construction Garden Design Garden Maintenance Glossary Home Library* Offbeat Glossary Plants Soil Tool Shed Useful Data Topic - Plant Photo Galleries Aquatic Bamboo Bedding Bulb Climber Colour Wheel Conifer Deciduous Shrub Deciduous Tree Evergreen Perennial Evergreen Shrub Evergreen Tree Fern Grass Hedging Herbaceous Perennial Herb Odds and Sods Rhododendron Rose Soft Fruit Top Fruit Vegetable Wild Flower Topic - Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery Butterfly	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
Short Cuts to Great Gardens	1-85029-395-3	Nigel Colborn	Gardens and plans	Ideas to reduce the lead time to maturity in your garden. Short cuts planting schemes for hot spot, dry shade, annuals, exposed, bog and water, container and wild gardens. Short-cut good description plant list
Success with House Plants	0-89577-052-0	Reader's Digest	Houseplants	Good descriptions of houseplants with maintenance instructions, some with colour photo. Good essay on how to use plants indoors and another on how to maintain them.
Take the Hard Work Out of Gardening	0-340-55002-3	Consumers' Association		How to create an easy-care garden by stages with lists of plants
Taylor's Guide to Bulbs	0-395-40449-5	Taylor	466 bulbs	466 good descriptions, also name, height, flower length, hardiness, sun/shade, blooming time period data with its colour photo. Flower chart. Garden design with bulb plans, and bulb suggestions for different gardens
The Art of Planting	0-460-04640-3	Graham Stuart Thomas		150 pages of plant lists for different purposes. Planting design methodology
The BBC Gardeners' World Directory	0-563-37154-4	Geoff Hamilton		Lists to aid the gardener from the BBC Gardeners' World team
The Beekeeper's Garden	0-7136-3023-X	Ted Hooper & Mike Taylor	Plants for bees	Beginner's bee-keeping data, planning a bee garden, good descriptions of bee plants and hedges
The Border Book	0-7513-0084-5	Anna Pavord	Plants and plant schemes	Demystifies the art of creating effective plant associations and provides a diversity of border planting plans with good descriptions of plants with colour photos for those sites. Lists of plants for different sites
The City Gardener	0-00-715568-9	Matt James		A city garden is usually small and this books gives lists of plants that do well as well as ones to avoid as bad or ugly.
The Cottage Gardener's Companion A seasonal guide to plants & plantings for informal gardens	0-7153-0020-2	Clive Lane of the Cottage Garden Society		Cottage garden Plant associations. Essays on spring, summer, autumn and winter plants. Great book for cottage garden plants
The Flower Arranger's Garden Month-by-Month	0-7153-0296-5	Leila Aitken	Line drawings	Garden flowers for arranging table with flower colour group/plant name row and flowering season month column. Good description of flower arrangers garden plants for each month with 2 practical flower arrangement projects
The Flower Colour Directory	0-00-412655-6	John Dale and Kevin Gunnell	1000 plants	Instructions on planting for colour. Good descriptions of plants split into 9 colours, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, white and assorted colours.
The Flower Garden Planner	0-224-02218-0	Ethne Clarke	140 garden plant press-out illustrations	140 press-out flower illustrations with good descriptions. Open folds of the border page, press out the plants selected and "plant" in 3 rows of border to give colour and shape of proposed garden
The Garden Bench	1-85145-785-2	Mirabel Osler	Garden Seats	Pictures of different garden seats
The Garden Bird Book	0-333-33151-6	David Glue	Birds	Plants useful to birds' list. Essay on bird garden design
The Gardener's Guide to Bulbs	1-8573-2178-2	Brian Mathew Philip Swindells	Bulbs	750 Good descriptions of spring, summer, autumn and winter bulbs. Advice on how and where to use bulbs with planting schemes
The Gardening Which? Guide to Small Gardens	0-85202-587-4	Ruth Chivers	Gardens and planting plans	16 Design ideas for small gardens with hard landscaping and planting planning
The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll	0-7112-0746-1	Richard Bisgrove	Gardens and planting plans	Jekyll plants chapter gives the benefit that derives from a disciplined and positive use of a few good plants at a time. Bisgrove has selected the best of jekyll's plans, analyzed and interpreted them to explain jekyll's design ideas and methodology
The HDRA Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.	0-7513-3381-6	Pauline Pears	300 pictures	The complete guide to natural & chemical-free gardening.
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Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Planting Design Books - S-T

Short Cuts to Great Gardens

1-85029-395-3

Nigel Colborn

Gardens and plans

Ideas to reduce the lead time to maturity in your garden. Short cuts planting schemes for hot spot, dry shade, annuals, exposed, bog and water, container and wild gardens. Short-cut good description plant list

The Art of Planting

0-460-04640-3

Graham Stuart Thomas

150 pages of plant lists for different purposes. Planting design methodology

The Beekeeper's Garden

0-7136-3023-X

Ted Hooper & Mike Taylor

Plants for bees

Beginner's bee-keeping data, planning a bee garden, good descriptions of bee plants and hedges

The Cottage Gardener's Companion A seasonal guide to plants & plantings for informal gardens

0-7153-0020-2

Clive Lane of the Cottage Garden Society

Cottage garden Plant associations. Essays on spring, summer, autumn and winter plants. Great book for cottage garden plants

The Flower Colour Directory

0-00-412655-6

John Dale and Kevin Gunnell

1000 plants

Instructions on planting for colour. Good descriptions of plants split into 9 colours, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, white and assorted colours.

The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll

0-7112-0746-1

Richard Bisgrove

Gardens and planting plans

Jekyll plants chapter gives the benefit that derives from a disciplined and positive use of a few good plants at a time. Bisgrove has selected the best of jekyll's plans, analyzed and interpreted them to explain jekyll's design ideas and methodology

The HDRA Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.

0-7513-3381-6

Pauline Pears

300 pictures

The complete guide to natural & chemical-free gardening.