Garden Design
by Sylvia Crowe
People think when you’re designing gardens, you’re dealing with beauty. In fact, it’s a hard slog! You’ve got to be diplomatic with clients and contractors, yet quite forceful. What do you do if they want something awful? After a bit you can say no, but it’s hard to begin with. No books can really help you with that, it’s a question of experience, but in terms of the theory Sylvia Crowe is the one.
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