Faced with smaller gardens, many gardeners today are turning their attention to the special qualities of miniature plants and features. Martin Baxendale offers a guide to the wide variety of effects which can be achieved, beyond merely planting dwarf bulbs or building a rock garden. The author covers small and miniature shrubs, conifers, border perennials, rock plants and bulbs and gives advice applicable to rockgardens, raised beds and wall gardens, planting in paving, planting for gorund-cover and planting in containers.