"Derek" wrote in message
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After many years with a small garden I now have a very large blank
canvas to keep me occupied. At the moment, its featureless. Can anyone
suggest a good book on Garden Design.

Leave the books on the shelves, unless you are planning to enter it for
competitions, its your garden, make it how you think it looks good, its
common sense to organize things so you can get about.

People would think a lot less of designed gardens if they were allowed to
see them over a 12 month period instead of a few days at a show.

I now get irritated to the point I just can not watch garden programs at
all, I have lost track of the number of truly daft designs I have seen of
late, uncuttable grass, beautiful mirror ponds and shiny surfaces (for the
gardens that never have leaves fall, dust or rain) Gardens that only would
look good in June, wonderful cloud pruned hedges with no means of getting at
them to cut them, this list is endless.

I am sure yours will be lovely and betters still you will have enjoyed doing
it

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Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk