Una van der Spuy, How to Design Your Garden

Una van der Spuy, How to Design Your Garden. Cape Town: Don Nelson, 2nd edition, 2011.

Small quarto, hard cover, 120 pages, beautifully illustrated.

In fine condition.

'Well-known author of no fewer than ten gardening books, Una van der Spuy has distilled a lifetime of knowledge and experience into this new and revised edition of How to Design Your Garden.

'Taking advantage of a resurgent interest in nature conservation and indigenous plants, the book described in simple terms, the factors to consider before designing a garden.

'Specific details are given on how to draw up a plan for a garde3n which will enhance the appearance of your home and provide additional living space. A wealth of splendid colour photographs, sketches and plans illustrate clearly where to have a patio, terrace, sunken garden, path, pergola, arbour, trellis or gazebo.

'There are photographs and notes on the townhouse garden, the shady garden, the dry garden, the foliage garden, the rose garden and the scented garden.'