Family Gardens: How to Create Magical Outdoor Spaces for All Ages

Far from compromising the dreams of gardening enthusiasts, this book shows how plants and children can successfully co-exist in the same space. It includes garden plans, step-by-step projects for making full-scale structures like tree-houses, cable runways and paddling pools and instructions for making simple features like children's picnic tables, teepees and rabbit hutches. Advice is given on turning gardens into fantasy worlds for children, complete with bamboo thickets in which to make dens, fairy-tale playhouses and pools filled with tadpoles, watersnails and newts. For adults, the book provides all the ingredients for creating a garden which is a safe play environment for children and a place for all the family to relax and enjoy the sights, scents and sounds of the natural world.