Book review

Design your Garden Toolkit by Michelle Gervais (£19.95, Storey Publishing)

THOSE OF US old enough to remember playing with Fuzzy Felt will doubtless enjoy ‘playing’ with this new garden design book by Michelle Gervais. The 80-page guide book is full of sensible design advice and profiles of popular plants to use in the garden. Those same cultivars are also supplied as 150 reusable illustrated stickers with a glossy backing card showing an empty garden scene. The idea is, you can peel off these lifelike illustrations and stick them onto the backdrop card, to create your own dream border. You can mix shrubs and grasses and perennials to your heart’s content, layering and rearranging them at whim. Brilliant idea and enormous fun. ✿✿✿✿✿