Design-Your-Garden Toolkit: Visualize the Perfect Combination for Your Yard; Step-by-Step Guide with Profiles of 128 Popular Plants, Reusable Cling Stickers, and Fold-Out Design Board

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Garden design is fun! 150 reusable vinyl plant stickers provide an irresistible tool for playing with arrangements - layering and rearranging on the accompanying design board until the most pleasing, personalised combination is achieved. The accompanying design primer lays out five simple steps to make creative designing accessible to everyone - no prior design experience required. Many homeowners and gardeners can recognise a well-designed garden but lack the skills or confidence to create well-balanced and harmonious beds of their own. This unique interactive book teaches basic garden design techniques and provides plenty of opportunity to try out new skills with reusable vinyl stickers representing dozens of popular plants, which users can experiment with to their heart's content - on a fold-out, four-panel, laminated design board - until they find the plant combinations they love the most. The book lays out simple guidelines on using colour, texture, and form effectively and then walks users through five simple steps of designing a beautiful and successful garden - starting with identifying the proper level of sun and/or shade and completing the design with flowering accent plants. AUTHOR: Michelle Gervais spent 15 years as an editor at Fine Gardening magazine, where she travelled the country visiting and photographing spectacular gardens. She holds a degree in horticulture and has been formally trained in garden design. Full-colour; illustrations throughout; includes 150 reusable vinyl stickers and laminated fold-out design board

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"Where has this book been all my life Learning garden design with reusable 'stickers' is fun and confidence-boosting, and it reminds me of the Colorforms I played with as a kid." -- Amanda Thomsen, author of Kiss My Aster

"A comprehensive and fun resource for gardeners of all levels of expertise! The easy-to-comprehend design concepts along with pages and pages of gorgeous -- and incredibly realistic -- stickers are sure to make this a favorite gardening tool." -- Rebecca Sweet, landscape designer and author of Refresh Your Garden Design with Color, Texture and Form and HarmonyInTheGarden.com

Author Bio

Michelle Gervais spent 15 years as an editor at Fine Gardening magazine, where she traveled the country visiting and photographing spectacular gardens. She holds a degree in horticulture from Virginia Tech and is passionate about plants and garden design. She and her family live and garden on a quasi-urban half-acre on the banks of the Housatonic River in New Milford, Connecticut.