How to Design a Garden

Design the garden of your dreams with the expertise of award-winning garden designer Pollyanna Wilkinson.

How to Design A Garden shows you how to untap your garden’s potential and customise the design to suit you and your space: whether that be an extension of your living space for parties and al fresco dining or a calming oasis to relax in.

Equipped with all you need to know about light, focal points, hardscaping, and planting, you’ll have the skills to create a mood board, design layout, choose paving, furniture, and plant combinations. Polly expertly guides you to understand how the elements in your garden will work together as one – and she is not shy to share her opinions on certain design dos and don'ts!

Once you’ve designed your garden, month-by-month growing guides help you to nurture it, so you can enjoy your dream space for years to come.

*How to Design A Garden made the Sunday Times Bestseller list in February 2025

About the Author

Polly Wilkinson is one of the UK’s leading garden designers. At the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, she won the People’s Choice for her charity garden for Mothers for Mothers. In RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2019, she won a Silver medal and People’s Choice for her naturecraft garden.