Meredith Kirton's Plot is full of workable and imaginative ideas about garden design and can be used as both a comprehensive reference guide and a constant source of inspiration. The first section of the book provides an historical background to garden design before covering the basics, from assessing your site to working out a design brief for your own garden 'rooms'. The second section explores five different palettes of garden design: wild, formal, colour, eclectic and contemporary. Within each palette, five sample garden styles are covered in detail. Templates are provided to assist with designing your garden and inspirational mood boards for each of the 25 garden types are also included.

Author Biography

Meredith Kirton is a highly regarded garden writer, horticulturist and landscape designer. She has taught courses in horticulture and undertaken commissions for both public and domestic landscape design projects. Meredith regularly writes for newspapers and gardening and lifestyle magazines and has published three books with Murdoch Books: Dig, Plot and An Hour in the Garden. Meredith is a presenter on Gardening Australia and has worked extensively in radio and television as a horticulture researcher and designer.