A Guide to Landscaping and Garden Design Volume 1

Above all else this is a book for gardeners who want to learn about developing and designing their own gardens.
1. It shows the reader how to create their garden using major principles of garden design the decorative and structural elements.
2. It explains how to develop a plan to begin your garden, then how to plant and maintain it.
3. It explains that a garden can be successful in many different climates.
4. It explains how to create the right garden soil by making compost also building soil mounds to create the right garden mood.
5. Throughout the book I explain that is it not the plants you choose that matter, but the grouping of plants to create the effect you want.

A Guide to Landscaping and Garden Design Volume 2

1. I explain how the natural world and suburban gardeners have learnt to adapt to changing conditions.
2. I explain where we live has been affected by unpredictable weather conditions: e.g. extreme heat followed by cloud and torrential rain.
3. In volume 2 I explain how gardens will need to be designed and planted to create shady areas to accommodate a higher summer temperatures and they will need to have soak-aways for periods of heavy rainfall.
“I hope that my latest book Garden design for everyone volume 2 will set you on your journey of creating and building your own garden.” Robin

Conserving the ecology of gardens using its natural resources.
An invaluable and practical guide to those many home owners and keen gardeners as they struggle to cope with the challenge of continuing water restrictions in finding ways to maintain viable gardens.
Your Sustainable Garden provides sensible and practical guidance for those who love and recognize the environmental and quality-of-life values of the suburban garden; achieving even better gardens with substantially less water!

A journey of growing food from the stone age to modern times.
Through the eyes of a gardener, here is a journey of growing food from the stone age to modern times.
The story of sowing, and harvesting throughout the evolution of humankind and how this knowledge has cumulated into what we know today.
Robin is passionate about gardens, as can be seen in his practical down-to earth approach to the methodology of sowing and harvesting.