How to Design a Long Formal Garden

This plot, like the previous one, is excep­tionally narrow and the aim has been, once again, to try to produce a layout which minimizes the long narrow appear­ance and creates…

How to Design a Formal Garden

Here is a strictly formal layout for a large, almost rectangular garden. Formality and symmetry usually go hand in hand, so it has been important to establish a central axis…

How to Design a Balcony Garden

Planning and designing a balcony area is an exciting prospect, but it is also something of a challenge even to the experienced garden designer or landscape architect. Apart from the…

How to Create an Oriental Balcony

For many, particularly city dwellers, the controlled minimal ism and almost neutral colour schemes of classic oriental style is the perfect antidote to a stressful lifestyle and one which can…