Author(s): Eckersley Rick & Griffiths Simon

Gardening

Rick Eckersley and Lisa Stafford design gardens that people want to live in - ones that are simultaneously stimulating and comfortable. Now, in Outside, they share their experience.

They know how difficult it is to manipulate something as three-dimensional and changing as a garden, so Outside is about how to analyse a site's potential and visualise a garden that meets your needs. It is about creating a garden that harmonises with its house and the larger environment and flows organically from one part to the next, with shifts of tempo and surprises along the way. And it is about employing colours, textures and shapes, water, materials and plants, and the effects of light, shade and season, to endow a garden with mood and personality.