KIRTON, MEREDITH — Plot Designing Your Garden

UK, Murdoch Books. 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, Plot is some 440pp of copious illustration, ideas & references & is heading towards 2 kg to post. Full of workable and imaginative ideas about garden design, this book can be used as both a comprehensive reference guide and a constant source of inspiration. The first section of the book provides an historical background to garden design before covering the basics, from assessing your site to working out a design brief for your own garden 'rooms'. The second section explores five different 'palettes' of garden design - wild, formal, colour, eclectic and contemporary. Within each palette, five sample garden styles are covered in detail. About the author >>> Meredith Kirton is a highly regarded garden writer, horticulturist and landscape designer. She has taught courses in horticulture and undertaken commissions for both public and domestic landscape design projects. Meredith regularly writes for newspapers and gardening and lifestyle magazines and has published three books with Murdoch Books: Dig, Plot and An Hour in the Garden. Meredith is a presenter on Gardening Australia and has worked extensively in radio and television as a horticulture researcher and designer. Excellent/Very Good.