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Download or read book Planning and Creating First Garden written by Paul Power and published by How to Books*. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides step-by-step process of creating your own beautiful garden, regardless of your experience or gardening knowledge. This book covers common garden design problems. It is for those who want to go-it-alone with their own garden project. Everything you need is here: how to easily create working drawings of your proposed new garden, [ractical advice on how to create the most common soft features such as lawns, border preparation and planting plans, as well as the following practical tips: 1. Avoiding the deadly sins of amateur garden design. 2. How to create color and contrasr all-year round. 3. Ways of introducing tension, mystery and surprise. 4. How to create a works schedule for your project. 5. Estimating your project in terms of time and cost. 6. What's involved in employing specialist help. 7. Introducing organic gardening into your project. Written from the author's depth of experience both as a practising gardener and in running his own Do-it-yourself Garden Design Workshops, this book is for anyone who wants to go-it-alone with their own garden project. Paul Power is also the author of the bestselling Starting Your Own Gardening Business.