Fundamentals of Garden Designing

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. History of gardening in India. 3. Principles of garden designing. 5. Planning a garden. 6. Features and structures. 7. Laws. 8. Plants for the garden ornamental trees. 9. Ornamental shrubs. 10. Ornamental climbers. 11. Ornamental annuals. 12. House plants. 13. Bougainvilleas. 14. Chrysanthemum. 15. Coleus. 16. Rose. 17. Hedge, edge and topiary. 18. Bulbous and Rhizomatous plants. 19. Cacti and succulents. 20. Bonsal......

This book contains technical information on various aspects of garden designing viz., principles, styles, features, types of gardens, special gardens plants, maintenance calendar besides source of plant materials and firms who undertake jobs of garden development. A comprehensive account on all relevant aspects of garden designing has been provided step by step in this book in a concise and simple way. Sample designs, drawings and coloured photographs have been provided for better illustrations which make the book more useful. Each different features of the garden has been dealt separately with illustrations and photographs.

This book will fulfill dearth of technical and practical information on the subject under Indian conditions. Moreover this will serve as a useful reference book for the students of floriculture and landscaping. Nevertheless academicians, horticulturists, amateurs, home gardeners, professionals and plant lovers as a whole will also benefitted. The endeavour is to project this as a handbook providing fundamentals of garden designing in a very simple and concise manner so that it becomes accessible by a large number of users.