🎉 Up to 70% Off Selected ItemsShop Sale
HomeStore

Design Your Garden Toolkit by Michelle Gervais

Product image 1
1 / 9

Design Your Garden Toolkit by Michelle Gervais

Before picking up the trowel, pick up the stickers! With 150 reusable illustrated stickers—representing dozens of plant cultivars that are versatile, readily available, and suitable for most temperate growing zones—plus a fold-out design board and a book teaching five easy steps of garden design, you’ll have everything you need to create your vision of the perfect garden.

The durable cling stickers, with beautiful botanically accurate illustrations, can be layered, arranged, and rearranged to try out every variation before making any plant purchases. This book-and-kit combination makes it possible to create your dream border, bed, or backyard oasis without leaving your kitchen table!

How To Use This Toolkit

If you can recognize a well-designed garden but need some basic skills to start building your own garden beds in interesting and beautiful ways, here's the tool you need to get started. Read up on the fundamentals of good garden design (it's not as hard as you might think), learn a simple method for creating your own design, and browse a selection of 78 reliable plants that you can find in almost any good garden center in a temperate climate. Sure, you might find newer varieties out there, but these are classics. There are a few shrubs, lots of perennials, and a handful of plants that won't be hardy in most gardens but are worth the effort to bring indoors each winter or worth the money to buy new each spring.

Once you've studied the basics of combining plants and browsed through the possibilities, use the stickers and the fold-out design board to create the garden(s) of your dreams. We've included different cultivars for a number of plants and multiples of many of the stickers because sometimes you need more than one. The design board has a grid on one side and an empty garden plot on the other, to suit your working style. The stickers are proportional to each other, based on the final growth habit, but do keep in mind that plants grow! You'll need to take that into account when you actually start digging.


Product Details:

Author: Michelle Gervas

Pages: 80

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Format: Paperback

Publication Date: May 2018

ISBN: 9-781-61212-922-8
$5.99

Original: $19.98

-70%
Design Your Garden Toolkit by Michelle Gervais—

$19.98

$5.99

Product Information

Shipping & Returns

Description

Before picking up the trowel, pick up the stickers! With 150 reusable illustrated stickers—representing dozens of plant cultivars that are versatile, readily available, and suitable for most temperate growing zones—plus a fold-out design board and a book teaching five easy steps of garden design, you’ll have everything you need to create your vision of the perfect garden.

The durable cling stickers, with beautiful botanically accurate illustrations, can be layered, arranged, and rearranged to try out every variation before making any plant purchases. This book-and-kit combination makes it possible to create your dream border, bed, or backyard oasis without leaving your kitchen table!

How To Use This Toolkit

If you can recognize a well-designed garden but need some basic skills to start building your own garden beds in interesting and beautiful ways, here's the tool you need to get started. Read up on the fundamentals of good garden design (it's not as hard as you might think), learn a simple method for creating your own design, and browse a selection of 78 reliable plants that you can find in almost any good garden center in a temperate climate. Sure, you might find newer varieties out there, but these are classics. There are a few shrubs, lots of perennials, and a handful of plants that won't be hardy in most gardens but are worth the effort to bring indoors each winter or worth the money to buy new each spring.

Once you've studied the basics of combining plants and browsed through the possibilities, use the stickers and the fold-out design board to create the garden(s) of your dreams. We've included different cultivars for a number of plants and multiples of many of the stickers because sometimes you need more than one. The design board has a grid on one side and an empty garden plot on the other, to suit your working style. The stickers are proportional to each other, based on the final growth habit, but do keep in mind that plants grow! You'll need to take that into account when you actually start digging.


Product Details:

Author: Michelle Gervas

Pages: 80

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Format: Paperback

Publication Date: May 2018

ISBN: 9-781-61212-922-8
Design Your Garden Toolkit by Michelle Gervais | AFBookstore.com