{"id":19,"date":"2008-07-03T11:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-07-03T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T11:25:05","slug":"the-principles-of-garden-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-principles-of-garden-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Principles of Garden Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>I had an idea for a book on the principles of garden design about 20 years ago. The publishers I offered it to (Mitchel Beazley, Francis Lincoln and Conran Octopus) each invited to me meet them and said it was a ‘very interesting idea’. But they did not sign me up and the idea went on the back burner. Some of the content went into the final section of City as landscape (Spon 1998) and when the idea returned to the boil in 2008 I decided to do an eBook. It is now available under the Gardenvisit.com imprint: The Principles of Garden Design, Tom Turner <\/a>(ISBN 978-0-9542306-2-3, 45 pages, 130 illustrations, 2008). Comments would be most welcome and journalists can request review copies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The basis of the book is that Garden Design is much subject to the Vitruvian principles<\/a> as any other field of design, though they need to be adapted. In short:<\/p>\n