Rooftop and Terrace Gardens: A step-by-step guide to creating a modern and stylish space - Softcover

Tilston, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470517611 ISBN 13: 9780470517611

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

Creating a terrace or rooftop paradise

This city-dwellers guide to gardening shows how less is actually more, especially when it comes to creating one's own terrace and rooftop paradise. With ten sample gardens to choose from, including the plans for each, this practical guide describes every aspect of urban gardening-from design for roofs, screening and framing, gardening without soil to containers, furniture, and decorations and special effects. Full of overall and close-up photos of each garden, this magazine-style guide will show any apartment dweller how to create their very own Eden-with a garden of ferns and bamboos and vegetables and herbs only footsteps away.

About this title

About the Author

Caroline Tilston is the author of Small Family Gardens (2007) and Modern Family Gardens (2006), John Wiley & Sons. Having worked for over a decade in television production, Caroline retrained as a gardener with the National Trust. For the last ten years, she has been running her own garden design business, The Oak Studio Design Ltd. She also writes for gardening magazines and national newspapers, as well as doing radio broadcasting.

Steve Gorton is an established photographer, with over 20 years’ experience of working with publishers. He is the photographer of English Eccentric Interiors by Miranda Harrison (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) and Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque by Roy Johnston (John Wiley & Sons, 2007).

From the Back Cover

Garden Style Guide

Rooftop &Terrace Gardens: A step-by-step guide to creating a modern and stylish space

How is it possible to create a stunning space with no natural soil? This book looks at exciting ways to create terrace and rooftop spaces. It is full of ideas for visually appealing and practical planting in containers and raised beds, ranging from ferns and bamboos to vegetables and herbs. It also gives useful tips for screening and framing and provides a directory of plants for containers and roof gardens.

• Features newly commissioned photography by Steve Gorton
• Illustrated with specially drawn garden plans
• Packed with highly practical tips and quick-fix solutions
• Includes in detail 10 beautiful gardens to inspire

From the Inside Flap

Garden Style Guides

This new series of compact illustrated books from John Wiley & Sons makes gardening, fresh, engaging and accessible. The emphasis is on high style and low maintenance – quick fix, high-impact solutions. Featuring newly commissioned photography, each title provides lashings of inspiration to help create your own garden, whether it be a minimalist terrace, a wild flower haven or a family garden.

Titles in the series include:

Design Your Garden: 10 simple steps to transform your garden
ISBN: 978-0-470-51763-5 (£9.99)

Garden Makeovers: Quick fixes and designer secrets to transform your garden
ISBN: 978-0-470-51762-8 (£9.99)

Low-Maintenance Gardens: 10 simple steps to beautiful, easy and stylish outside spaces
ISBN: 978-0-470-51751-2 (£9.99)

Rooftop & Terrace Gardens: A step-by-step guide to creating a modern and stylish space
ISBN: 978-0-470-51761-1 (£9.99)

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470517611
• ISBN 13: 9780470517611
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192