SGD Members' Published Books
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• Title: OUR PLOT • ISBN: 9780711232365 • First published date: 6th October 2011 • Reprint date: January 2012 • Author: Cleve West Cleve West is one of Britain's top garden designers, now with six RHS gold medals to his name. Cleve is also a true allotmenteer, heading off to his plot whenever he can to get his hands dirty, find peace and contemplate life and nature. OUR PLOT, his first book, is full of practical commonsense, passion for his allotment (and its sheds) and a concern for the future which brings important issues to ground level. Cleve admits his mistakes so there’s plenty of advice of the what-not-to-do variety, as well as brilliant tips for successful growing of all the best fruit and veg. |
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• Book title 'Designing Gardens With Plant Shapes'
• ISBN: 978-1-84797-279-8 • First published date. Sept. 2011 • Revised published date - Nov 2011 • Reprint date/s N/A • Author’s name/s - Carol J Smith. • Photographs by Author, Cover photos by Rhoda Nottridge Designing Gardens with Plant Shapes introduces a new visual approach to planting design. It provides a practical, hands-on method for the design of planting in conjunction with plant knowledge. This innovative book sets out the principles of planting design, introduces nine plant shapes and a selection of appropriate plants, and explains how all gardeners – from the novice to the experienced – can achieve a beautiful and rewarding garden. The book includes:
Theoretical aspects of planting design
The nine plant shapes described and plant library
The easy to follow plant shapes method & practical drawing exercises
Advice on using colour in a planting scheme
Examples of three-dimensional planting design schemes
Guide to the planting process.
All illustrations in the book have been hand-drawn by Carol.
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• Title: Creative Connections: Aspects of the Garden Design Process
• ISBN: 978 1 85341 131 1 (paperback only) • First published in December 2008 by Packard Publishing Limited, Chichester. • First edition • Reprinted quarterly or on demand • Authors: Barbara Hunt MSGD and Elizabeth Whateley MSGD • Photographs by the authors with a few by Jill Billington, Malcolm Birkett, • Derek Copeland, John Glover, Marianne Majerus, Clive Nichols, Tim Sandall. This instructive book for novice designers evolved from an SGD workshop and focuses on the need to understand the fundamental principles that underpin all thoughtful design. It covers the garden design process in chapters entitled ‘Consulting the Genius of the Place’, ‘Proportion and Balance’, ‘Routes and Directions’, ‘Rhythm and Repetition’, ‘Geometry and Line’, ‘Contrast’ and ‘Mood’. Considerations about Colour appear appropriately in relevant sections of respective chapters. The book’s strength is that principles discussed in the text are amplified by garden plans and sketches, and further by colour photographs.
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• Title: A New Naturalism
• ISBN: 978 1 85341 133 5 (paperback only) • First published in May 2005 by Packard Publishing Limited, Chichester. • First edition • No Reprints • Authors: Catherine Heatherington MA MSGD & Juliet Sargeant BA MD MSGD • Photographs by the authors Description: Naturalistic planting evolved from Dutch and German applied ecological and horticultural expertise in the late twentieth century as well as from North American ‘prairie’ gardening experience. It became a vogue topic for a while in garden design and has now settled into a more balanced approach tempered by local climatic and ground conditions. This short book is part of a workshop series focused on planting design. It combines chapters on the developments in naturalistic planting, sustainability, design aspects and techniques, practical issues, naturalistic matrices and groupings, with profiles of leading practitioners and their advice for novices in this field .
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• Title: Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park: One With Nature
• ISBN - 1-57864-179-9 hardback, 1-57864-180-2 paperback • First published date - July 2002 • Revised published date -n/a • Reprint date n/a • Author’s: Andrew Guthrie & Dave Martins The Cayman Islands' Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park stands out in the country's panorama of attractive sites as the repository of hundreds of beautiful works of nature and of several plants found nowhere else on earth. The Park is unique also in its conceptual design approach of offering botanical displays interspersed with areas of undisturbed wilderness. These twin approaches of floral display and dedicated conservation are represented strikingly in this publication. |
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• Title: Designing Gardens
• ISBN-10: 0711217572 / ISBN-13: 0711217577 • First published date: 1st June 2002 • Revised published date: N/A • Reprint date/s: Hardback - N/A / Paperback - October 2012 • Author’s name/s: Arabella Lennox-Boyd • Photographer’s name if appropriate: Andrew Lawson The Sunday Telegraph Magazine said that Arabella Lennox-Boyd’s latest book, Designing Gardens, “give us the benefit of 30 years as a garden designer” and that her work, as photographed by Andrew Lawson, “is breathtaking” but also full of “solid advice that can be applied to a garden of any size”. The first part of the book explores Arabella’s design philosophy and also includes design ideas for everything from paving to pergolas to perennial planting whilst the second part looks in greater detail at more than 20 very different gardens around the world, accompanied by stunning photography. |
