Backyard Blueprints: Design, Furniture and Plants for a Small Garden

Every house in the world has a backyard, a vital outdoor space where life happens. In this book the author shows you how to make the most of that area and create a haven of peace (or fun) that is right for you and your lifestyle.

Backyard Blueprints is full of ingenious solutions for transforming backyards into gardens for entertaining, cooking, storing and relaxing. With blueprints for designing, building and decorating, that include barbecues, water features and decking this shows how to bring a backyard alive with plants and turn it into a green paradise. Even if the house walls cast shadows for most of the day and the soil is poor, this book shows how to get the area right with careful planning and clever use of space.