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Gardens, Annotated
Your Guide to the Design of 200 Gardens from Around the World
Series: DK Annotated
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Garden design inspiration and insight into gardens from around the world. Take design inspiration from 200 gardens of all different styles, climates, and sizes from around the world. Gardens, Annotated is a stunning photographic compendium that puts a magnifying glass up to the design choices of...
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Garden design inspiration and insight into gardens from around the world.
Take design inspiration from 200 gardens of all different styles, climates, and sizes from around the world.
Gardens, Annotated is a stunning photographic compendium that puts a magnifying glass up to the design choices of the world's best garden designers and landscape architects in a simplified, bite-sized way.
With chapters on different principles of design, such as focal points, routes, and of course planting, there is a plethora of takeaways to apply to your own garden: discover, for example, how to achieve naturalistic planting schemes or how to use materials to create impact.
This is garden design explained for anyone seeking inspiration.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9780241819869
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 22 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: DK
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 238.0mm
Height: 287.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Chris Young is a landscape designer with over 25 years' experience across the gardening and landscape sector and a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture. He runs a gardens consultancy, CY Gardens, working with people on business development, garden design, and content creation - and is also a consultant to Burghley House. In 2022 Chris worked on the Gold Medal-winning Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, designed by Jamie Butterworth; he supported the development of the garden, worked on the brief with Jamie, and contributed to the design. Chris was formerly Editor of the Garden Design Journal, the magazine of the Society of Garden Designers, and Head of Editorial at the Royal Horticultural Society.
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