How to Create Your Garden: Ideas and Advice for Transforming Your Outdoor Space

"Creating a garden doesn't need to be complicated," according to author Adam Frost, BBC Gardeners' World presenter and winner of multiple Chelsea Flower Show gold medals. Regardless of your experience or budget, you can design your dream garden, whether for a small urban space, cottage, suburban front yard or roof terrace.

Frost’s practical, no-nonsense approach strips away complex design concepts and focuses on your needs and preferred style to help you plan and build a garden that works for you.

His guide takes you step-by-step through the whole process, inspiring you with simple ideas, be they for a full garden makeover or smaller alteration, perhaps a tired herbaceous border, neglected vegetable patch, patio or water feature.

Learn how to design a garden that reflects your practical needs, lifestyle, budget, personality, soil and climate. Build it yourself following the clear, uncomplicated, easy-to-understand instructions that show you everything from laying turf to terraces, planting trees or building a raised bed or water feature. Enjoy gardening month by month with a simple checklist of what to do when to keep your garden in shape at every point throughout the year.

Create an outdoor space that is right for you.

Softcover, 256 pages, 2020.