"Gardens in the Making" is a comprehensive guide to designing and creating beautiful gardens, with chapters on everything from making a plan and laying foundations to installing eye-catching water features and beyond. With simple instructions and helpful diagrams, this volume is perfect for recommended for gardeners and DIY enthusiasts with little previous experience, and it would make for a fantastic addition to allied collections. Contents include: "The Aim of the Garden", "First Principles", "The Garden Plan", "From Entrance to Courtyard", "Garden Boundaries", "The Divisions of the Garden", "The Terraced Garden", "Garden Furniture and Buildings", "Some Old-World Features", "Water, Stone and Lead", "Some Special Gardens", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.