Small Garden Style: A Design Guide for Outdoor Rooms and Containers by Isa Hendry Eaton

A stylishly photographed guide to creating lush, layered, dramatic little gardens no matter the size of your available space--an urban patio, a tiny backyard, or even just a pot by your door. Petite gardens align with the movement to live smaller and create a life with less stuff and more room for living. But a more eco-friendly and efficient space doesn't have to sacrifice style. In Small Garden Style, garden designer Isa Hendry Eaton and lifestyle writer Jennifer Blaise Kramer show you how to use good design to create a joyful, elegant, and exciting yet compact outdoor living space for entertaining or relaxing. A style quiz helps you focus in on your own personal garden style, be it traditional, modern, colorful, eclectic, minimalist, or globally inspired, then utilize every inch of your yard by considering the horizontal, vertical, and overhead spaces. You'll learn how to design stunning planters and container gardens using succulents, grasses, vibrant-colored pots, and more. Hendry Eaton and Blaise Kramer recommend their favorite plants and decor for small gardens, along with lawn alternatives and inspiration for making garden accents such as a fire pit, front door wreath, instant mini orchard, boulder birdbath, patterned vines, perfumed wall, and faux fountain with cascading plants. However small your garden, Read more

From the Publisher Find Your Small Garden Style Begin your style journey with a personal look at who will enjoy your garden, how you want to live in your space, the mood you want to create, and the feeling that will call you outdoors. Enter Small Garden Design School Get a crash course in field-tested, fundamental design principles, as well as day-to-day secret tricks and tips. Start high, with the essentials of visual design, and then get low (down-in-the-dirt low) with photos of real gardens and containers to see design principles in action. Get Gardening Whether a seasoned pro or garden novice, you’ll find plenty of accessible and inspirational ideas and step-by-steps to help define and refine your bit of earth, no matter how small.