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Gardens, Annotated

Your Guide to the Design of 200 Gardens from Around the World
By Chris Young
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... Read More
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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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INFORMATION

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: 300g

Pages: 336

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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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