The highlight of most gardens is the flowerbed, or border. This comprehensive guide combines creativity with practicality for gardeners of all skill levels. Talented gardeners share their insights and experiences on all aspects of planting beds & borders: Design Strategies; Selecting the Best Plants; Laying Out and Building; Fine Gardening Design Guides: a new series from one of the most popular international gardening journals offer a distinctive combination of practicality and inspiration, showing how state of the art garden design is done on the other side of the Atlantic. Full colour paperback, with over 155 full colour photographs, design artwork, sidebars, charts, plant lists and photo features provide step-by-step details of every process. New trends and new ideas from America: packed with contributions drawing on the experience and recommendations from fifteen of America's most talented gardening experts.