--- product_id: 120867577 title: "Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces" price: "₱5228" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/120867577-gardentopia-design-basics-for-creating-beautiful-outdoor-spaces store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces **Price:** ₱5228 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces - **How much does it cost?** ₱5228 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/120867577-gardentopia-design-basics-for-creating-beautiful-outdoor-spaces) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description “ Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape―boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.” - Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen’s new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to “co-creating with nature” will have you saying, “I can do that!’ This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using ‘real world’ solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as ‘Soften a Corner”, “Paint it Black”, and “Hide and Reveal”. 100 color photographs Review: Gardentopia - Inspiration and Enlightenment for all gardeners! - 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... Review: DIY and Professionals must have. Informative, Easy to Read and Beautifully Illustrated - 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. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #213,541 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #141 in Landscape #234 in Garden Design (Books) #336 in Flower Gardening | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 566 Reviews | ## Images ![Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81rXWXFJlaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gardentopia - Inspiration and Enlightenment for all gardeners! *by L***A on April 3, 2019* 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... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ DIY and Professionals must have. Informative, Easy to Read and Beautifully Illustrated *by P***N on July 19, 2019* 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Engaging and Uplifting! *by N***N on February 21, 2021* As an avid gardener, retired teacher/administrator, and NYBG-trained horticultural therapist, I have purchased and read many, many books on flowers and gardening. Floratopia is one of the best! The photos are beautiful, the ideas creative and inspiring, and the division of concepts into 110 ideas invites the reader/gardener to keep looking for more! I look forward to punctuating my everyday "must-do" activities with time to read and reread sections of this delightful book. 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