This guide to creating a garden that looks and feels good even in the darkest depths of winter includes chapters on design and colour, along with work plans and a plant catalogue. It reveals the secrets of the successful winter garden, the use of space and an understanding of the patterns created by paths and walls, and the silhouettes of trunks and twisted branches.;The book demonstrates how to create an elegant framework, and how to plan and plant for effect in this often-neglected season. A selective catalogue portrays more than 200 plants, notable for their winter flowers, berries, floiage or bark.;Rosemary Verey has created a garden at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire and is the author of The Scented Garden, Classic Garden Design, The American Woman's Garden and The New Englishwoman's Garden.