Small Gardens: Specialist Guide, Home Gardener's

Name: Small Gardens: Specialist Guide, Home Gardener's
Author: David Squire

The essential guide to improving a small garden and turning the most modest-sized space into a stunning outdoor area.

Is your small garden swamped by oversized plants and in urgent need of a makeover? Have you considered adding climbing plants, containers, hanging baskets, and window boxes? The detailed guide provides space-saving designs and lists the most suitable plant combinations for small gardens, patios, and courtyards.

Easy-to-use and concise reference guide Expert advice about small gardens Step-by-step instructions and practical ideas for small spaces A-Z directory of small-garden plants Pictorial survey of features for a small garden Easy maintenance ideas for looking after a small garden

David Squire

David Squire has worked for many years as a gardening writer and editor. He has contributed to numerous gardening magazines and is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books. His books include four titles in the new Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series (Fox Chapel Publishing) plus The Scented Garden (Orion) which won the “Quill and Trowel Award” of the Garden Writers of America. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. In 2005, this collection of plants was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.