Penguin Books Australia

Gardens are full of memories – of places, of plants, of people, of beauty created and shared, beauty which can be relived and enjoyed again years later. In a mostly incomprehensible world, a world increasingly dominated by cruelty and fear, it is in gardens that many people seek and find, even if temporarily, peace and tranquillity.

In 1996 Susan Irvine and her husband bought Forest Hall, a derelict...

This is a book full of inspirational gardens, created by one of Australia's leading landscape designers. With the support of Simon Griffith's superb photographs, Paul Bangay demonstrates and explains the elements of good garden design. For each garden he presents the owners' brief, the existing architecture, and the nature and problems of the site, and then discusses the development and successful...

In May 1999, four friends – two restaurateurs, a chef and a photographer – set out on a three-week holiday in southern Italy. Gail and Kevin Donaldson, owners of Melbourne's popular Donovans, wanted to find visual and culinary inspiration for their constantly evolving bayside restaurant. Renowned photographer Simon Griffiths had been to Italy before and desperately wanted to go back. Donovans...

Now in a handsome new edition, Paul Bangay's The Balanced Garden is one long, glorious stroll through more than thirty of his landscape designs – an invitation to discover the very different charms of a variety, of gardens from the minimalism of a rooftop space to the vistas and garden rooms of an extensive country retreat. As always, Paul is passionate about showing his readers the elements...

In Rose Gardens of Australia Susan Irvine explores over thirty of the country's finest gardens to discover which roses thrive in Australia and how rose-lovers are growing them.

Everywhere she goes, rose-growers tell her how they planned and planted; what allowances they made for the conditions of their region; how they feed and prune their roses; which roses they find most successful – and which...

Rick Eckersley and Lisa Stafford design gardens that people want to live in – ones that are simultaneously stimulating and comfortable. Now, in Outside , they share their experience.

They know how difficult it is to manipulate something as three-dimensional and changing as a garden, so Outside is about how to analyse a site's potential and visualise a garden that meets your needs. It is about...