There's not a lot I can favourably say about this book; it's not bad, but it doesn't exactly excel either.

Common sense and your eyes would indicate if your rock placement is ugly and/or hideously unstable. The plant guide is helpful but not something you can't find elsewhere and whilst the ideals on implementation of secondary water features within the rock garden is mostly good it does contain the laughable suggestion of merely adding a water tap at the top of a slope and turning it on to have a stream... leaving it running spring, summer, autumn, but not winter - because that would be silly to have it on in winter.

Well written and easy to read but the substance of the content lets the book down. A massive departure from the quality of work seen in Shewell-Cooper's 'Soils'. ( )