My Garden is a Car Park: and Other Design Dilemmas

by Kendra Wilson

Aiming to make the prospect of tackling one's outside space less daunting and more enjoyable, the Gardenista contributor Kendra Wilson offers straightforward solutions to 48 garden management and design concerns. Each dilemma, such as 'my garden is too long and narrow', 'I don't have time to water regularly' and 'we have nowhere to sit', is illustrated with complementary photographs.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Horticulture

144 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2017

About the author

Kendra Wilson has contributed recently to: The Sunday Times, Gardens Illustrated, Guardian Weekend, Garden Design Journal, RHS The Garden, Vogue .
She has access to some of the most remarkable gardens in England, while dissecting them for the online publication Gardenista.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I hated to finish this book. I have been enjoying it, reading just a little a time so I can think about the ideas and examples on each page. This book is so helpful and eye-opening to me. It gives new ways to think about garden design, and also about 'what is a garden?' For me, I've been gardening for many a year, and my ideas about what I want my garden to be are changing. I have been influenced and cheered up by this book. I might just keep it in the background and read through it slowly again.

[Marjorie Elwood · Rating 3 out of 5]

Each page is devoted to a gardening issue, such as what to do with a large front yard, or what to do if you don't like flowers. There are solutions proposed, with photographs, although I'm not terribly fond of the aesthetic of many of the gardens featured. Quite a few are British, although there are some sections about gardening in deserts.

[Deborah Makarios · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brief but helpful advice for a range of garden situations.

[Jennifer P · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really cute little book! Beautiful photos, interesting format.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A quick read, interesting, some neat ideas. Great pictures to illustrate the various concepts.