An accessible guide to designing and building a modern garden. This relatively small book (just over 200 pages) manages to cover pretty much everything you need to consider when designing a modern garden. Illustrated with lots of clear photos this book gives you lots of ideas for designing your own garden.
Taking you through how to design, what plant features to consider, any structures, types of paths, furniture, surfaces, colour considerations and much more.
If you want a modern garden, or you have one, this book gives you tons of ideas.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

Lots of show gardens, lots of ideas. Would have liked to see 'before and after' photos of real gardens. Inspiring and gives great ideas, but not good on a 'normal' budget. Its a book of basic information to get started, but the ideas are chelseas garden style.

A great guidelines for those wanting to revamp their garden.

Plenty of ideas, plans and inspiration to get you started.

With the abundance of images and instruction, you'll be transforming your space in no time.

This is one of the Joe Swift gardening guides which I have been pleased to receive as an advance copy from NetGalley. As with the others, this book is well planned with clear narrative and illustrations. I plan to redesign parts of my garden this year and have found this guide very helpful as a start off. It is so helpful that I have purchased a hard copy which is the format I prefer for books of this type.

Create Your Own Modern Space is one of a set of accessible gardening guides by Joe Swift covering a range of gardening topics. Due out 3rd March 2022 from Collins Reference, it's 224 pages and will be available in ebook format.

This guide covers assessment, planning, design, and implementation of green rooms and garden spaces with a modern aesthetic. I've been surprised by all of these guides (this is the 5th one I've reviewed) at how comprehensive they are and how little overlap there is between them. The author has a very broad knowledge and solid aesthetic sense. Although I'm much more of a cottage gardener, I found quite a lot of inspiration and plant choices which appealed to me and made lots of notes of plants to look for during spring shopping. He had some good ideas about hardscaping and water features as well which I definitely want to incorporate into my own garden.

The book is copiously illustrated with colour photographs. Most of the photography is from stock image services, but does a perfectly good job of illustrating the salient points.The language throughout is accessible and easy to understand. Plants are listed with botanical (Latin) names as well as common names, along with lots of photos.

Worthwhile, especially in conjunction with the other volumes in the series.

The book's terminology and climate information are based on UK English, although most of the information is certainly applicable to gardeners outside the British Islands.

Five stars. This would be a good choice for public and school libraries, gardening groups, community/allotment gardens, suburban gardeners, homeowners, etc.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.