City Gardens: Creative Ideas for Small Spaces

Urban gardens are always a wonderful surprise amid the concrete and chaos of city life. Gardening in smaller spaces poses its own unique challenges and rewards, and City Gardens is a complete do-it-yourself guide to starting or improving your own urban oasis. From planning the space to selecting vegetation, from maintaining plants to choosing outdoor decor: this handy book helps you through the entire process of creating a city garden. Both inspiring and informative, City Gardens shows that gardeners of all levels can brighten up their urban environment?no matter how little space they have.

Pierre Nessmann is a journalist, garden designer, and the author of numerous works about gardens. His most recent book is A chacun son jardin with Brigitte and Philippe Perdereau.

Brigitte and Philippe Perdereau are among the best-known garden photographers in France. They travel throughout Europe photographing gardens, and their work has been published in many books and magazines.