Create Your Dream Garden: Tips and Techniques to Make Your Garden Bloom (52 Brilliant Ideas)

Don't worry, Create your dream garden isn't your usual garden makeover book that tries to convince you to put decking over every plant you have. Instead this book will help you to discover what's practical for you to achieve and most importantly what you can do that's relatively low maintenance. It is designed to help you achieve the garden you have always wanted while also being practical and realistic about the time you have to do it. By the end of this book you won't have a degree in horticulture, but you will have a garden that blooms and delights.

Mark Hillsden writes on environmental issues for Regeneration & Renewal; on general lifestyle for Maxim, JACK, Country Walking; and on gardening for The Times. Jeremy Cook and Anna Marsden had only previously been exposed to gardening through their keen and knowledgeable mothers. In 1986 they bought a partially converted barn on what might flatteringly be described as a building site. The only living element was a rather sorry looking silver birch. Over the succeeding 18 years they experienced first hand every conceivable aspect of gardening from initial design and construction to planting and development. Photographs of the garden have appeared in Garden Answers and their story, Starting from Scratch, is well told and illustrated in the magazine The Gardener. They open their garden for viewing once a year