Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

You’ll find some excellent tips to take your garden from “meh” to amazing in this book! I was so excited by the advice in the book, that I started to work on my garden right away using her tips! Before and after pictures of my garden are proof positive, Jan Johnsen is a garden guru!

It’s actually the best gardening book I have and I have about 100 garden books - super pictures super inspiring- great ideas and design perspective- it’s almost like combining an interior designer with a gardener and getting the best of both!!!!

I have been anticipating the release of Gardentopia Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, since I preordered it last year, and Jan Johnsen has succeeded in bringing us a new garden book that is destined to become a classic. This book has something for everyone who has an interest in gardens and outdoor space, including professional garden designers such as myself. The photos illustrate the design tips clearly and effectively. Gardentopia is a book you can first go through by just looking at the photos. You will undoubtedly find yourself drawn into reading the engaging and concise text. The tips are written in such a way to provide at least one important design concept or technique on each page. You will reach for this book for inspiration or as a reference guide, and the tips apply to gardens both large and small. The colorful and well printed photos make my brain light up, and now I can't wait to get out into my garden and start using some of these design tips! A Garden of the Five Senses may be my first project...

From visualizing the finished garden, to gathering materials and getting down to work, Jan Johnsen covers beautifully every facet of what it means to create an outdoor oasis. As with her previous books, Jan carefully lays the groundwork for her readers’ success, intertwining creative inspiration with practical guidance. her writing style is breezy, and her illustrations are dreamy. But make no mistake: This book is chock-full of substantial, ingenious ideas that come from years of accumulated knowledge and experience. I highly recommend GARDENTOPIA, for novice gardeners and longtime landscapers alike.

It's beautiful but I was hoping for more. It would help if the plants were labled and climate was stated.

This book is just a compilation of 135 "blurbs" about various garden-related things. Example... #10: Adirondack chairs are a thing! #49: Put a brick boarder in your patio! #85: Pink and purple go well together!Skip this one if you want actual insights and detailed information.

This is a must have garden design and idea book. I first read this author's "Heaven is a Garden" book and love it. Glad that I found this "Gardentopia". It has a lot of design ideas and each page has beautiful color pictures of the author's designs to illustrate the subject matter. It has how to information for DIY gardeners. It is so inspirational, informative and interesting to read that I have just finished reading this a second time. Jan Johnsen has provided some of her years of design experience in a simple, informative and well illustrated must have book for anyone who is interested in creating or editing their own garden heaven.

for We Gardeners who like to bring ideas to our own plats and plots and dream of some day plantings. Very pretty just to look at and realize there are some very talented gardeners out there, who are bringing us more pollinator gardens, and more than just a pot of pansies to our homes, NOT that a pot of pansies aren't a fine addition to find grasses and other less regular plantings, this book, brings us to such layouts, and inspiration. Glad I have this for referral when I ask my honey to imagine what I would like here there and everywhere!

very good book that provided me with lots of interesting ideas

A magnificent garden book. Highly recommended.

Inspirational book !