Outdoors : the garden design book for the twenty-first century / Diarmuid Gavin & Terence Conran.

Includes index.

Brings the principles of high quality, imaginative and innovative garden design to every garden owner. The authors give their personal insight into what inspires them and how the philosophies behind their design work has been shaped over time. They discuss how garden design has evolved, its current place in design as a whole and the journey that it will take throughout the twenty-first century. The book covers a range of garden uses such as relaxation, productive, entertainment, practical and family. Encouragement is posed to the readers to look beyond the garden gate to consider garden styles and uses worldwide and to examine how gardeners use their outdoor spaces to achieve their specific needs. Also provides the practical information on how to fulfill the requirements for each garden type, and detailed case studies throughout the book, personally chosen by the authors, demonstrate how innovative creative detailing that sets one garden apart from another. Practical advice on how to design a garden is given and a comprehensive directory of hard landscaping materials and plants are presented.