In The New Garden Designer’s Handbook, Daryl Beyers guides gardeners and budding designers through the process of planning useful, beautiful gardens, large and small, from start to finish.
Complete with step-by-step instructions, detailed illustrations, and over 20 prototypical design plans, this practical, easy-to-follow primer describes how professional garden designers think and work, followed up with expert advice on how to evaluate a design, develop a reasonable budget, and get going on implementation. Gardeners will learn how to:- Conduct a site survey, determine the scope of the design, create a base map and complete design drawings.
- Assess and work with diverse landforms and their corresponding soil type and drainage issues.
- Choose, create, and implement an array of built structures that make outdoor spaces useful and beautiful.
- Design with plants by developing a plant palette complete with trees, shrubs, perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, annuals, tender perennials, and bulbs.
- Put it all together into a comprehensive design plan!
Author: Daryl Beyers
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9781643264691
Language: English
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