Climbing Garden: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden

All gardens need height to make them come alive in three dimensions and to extend the planting area. Climbing Gardens explores all the varieties and uses of climbing plants to create unique garden spaces that preserve privacy, increase the feeling of space, and create unusual gardens and moods.

Includes a whole range of vertical structures from simple trellises and tepees to elegant arbors and obelisks Explores creative ways to maximize space in a small garden Provides inspiration for all types of gardens, formal as well as kitchen gardens, plus lots of ideas for patios, porches, roof terraces, and balconies Offers a comprehensive and descriptive list of climbing plants to help gardeners make the right choices for their garden needs Illustrates and describes numerous projects step-by-step Features five chapters on a range of styles - formal, urban, living, romantic and potager that cover a wide variety of sites.

Illustrated with more than 150 inspiring photographs of gardens in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Joan Clifton is the creative force behind Avant Garden, a London-based company specializing in creating wrought-iron and wirework forms for training topiary and creating living sculpture. Avant Garden's creations are sold worldwide and they are regular exhibitors at the Royal Horticultural Society garden shows, including Chelsea and Hampton Court. Joan is also the author of Making a White Garden and Garden Elements and contributes regularly to leading magazines.