Product Review

This garden design book is all about the aesthetics of plant design. How you put plants together with one another is vital for creating attractive planting borders. This book does not focus on what conditions plants need to grow (see ‘How to Choose the Right Plants’ for that) but how to know which plants look good together.

You'll learn how to avoid the BIG mistake that virtually everybody makes when deciding which plants to put together. The book covers a step-by-step method to create the perfect planting design plan for your garden tastes and style.

We will also take a look at how you can combine different plants to create different styles of garden from Old English cottage gardens, urban gardens, edible gardens, formal, exotic, oriental, small space gardens through to contemporary and many more, to give you plenty of landscaping design ideas with plants.

The book includes tips on how to purchase plants cost effectively and save money on your purchases.

Suitable for complete beginners who know absolutely nothing about plants, through to experienced gardeners. Learning what makes plants look good together is an art that's explained simply and comprehensively in this book.

Creating a beautiful planting scheme does take some effort, but if you follow the steps laid out in the book, you will achieve success and save yourself money buying the right plants first time.

About the Author



Rachel Mathews has been a garden designer for 20 years. She has designed hundreds of beautiful gardens in the UK. She has also designed gardens across the USA, Australia, Malaysia and Spain. As well as designing, Rachel now teaches garden design and has written a series of ‘how to’ garden design books and online courses. She teaches a very simple method that enables anyone to create a stunning garden at Successful Garden Design.