Welcome to Potterton Books website the one stop source for reference books on Architecture, Antiques, Interior Design and the Decorative Arts. POTTERTON BOOKS : GARDENS AND PLANTS : GARDEN ORNAMENT AND ANTIQUES Decorate your garden by Mary Keen 1993. 160pp. Over 250 photographs illustrate this superb sourcebook for all those interested in enhancing their garden. Affordable ideas for inspiring gardens and unusual effects ranging from piled up pots to bottomless boats. A unique collaboration between two celebrated names in garden publishing. A fresh, inventive look at ornamental garden features. Price:  £14.99 Classic Garden Features by David Stuart 2000. 160pp, 200 colour photographs. Garden expert David Stuart presents a unique visual sourcebook of original and contemporary garden ornaments, water features, trellises, pergolas and centerpieces including sundials and classical statues. Price:  £25.00 Gardening with antique plants by David Stuart 2001. 160pp. David Stuart's inspiring selection for modern gardeners is based on experience as a specialist nurseyman and designer of period gardens. The authors interest in the background and history of the plants we use in our gardens has been gorgeously produced. Price:  £18.99 Ornament in the small garden by Roy Strong 2001. 144pp, 170 photographs, 15 colour plans. A guide to ornamental features in the small gardens. Roy Strong shows how to consider size and scale, materials, shape, colour and texture, and offers help in placing garden ornaments effectively. The book is illustrated with photographs and ground plans. Price:  £25.00 Antique garden ornament: Two Centuries of American Taste by Barbara Israel 256pp, with 512 illustrations, including 100 plates in full colour. This book is an invaluable resource for historians and collectors and will remain the standard work in this field. Price:  £32.00 Antique garden tools and accessories by Outwater 192pp, 750 colour photos. Two hundred years of garden history are presented in the hundreds of tools and accessories that gardeners used to dig the soil, cut shrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. With over 750 colour photographs, concise captions, and a guide to prices in today's antique marketplace, this is a useful as well as beautiful exploration of garden implements Price:  £34.95 Garden Ornament: Five hundred years of history and practice by George Plumptre 256pp, with 506 illustrations, 150 in colour. The tremendous upsurge of interest in garden history and design in recent years has prompted a renewed fascination with the art and artifacts of garden ornament. The author traces the use of ornamental features throughout the history of the Western garden, and shows how, over the last five hundred years, garden designers have used stone, wood and metal to enhance and modify the natural features of the landscape. Price:  £16.95 Antique Garden Ornament: 300 years of creativity: artists, manufacturers and materials by John Davis 1991. 389pp, 446 b&w and 102 colour illus. The History of garden ornament from the seventeenth century is covered in great detail with separate sections on lead, stone, bronze, marble and cast iron. The working techniques of the modellers and manufacturers are discussed in detail as well as some of the gardens in which the finest examples may be found. This is a comprehensive work of original research. Price:  £39.50 Garden ornaments and antiques with price guide by Outwater 224pp, 582 colour photos. This book takes you through hundreds of beautiful garden landscapes lavish with marble and stone walkways, garden walls, tiered fountains, statuary, classical ruins, birdbaths, sundials, urns, garden furnishings and iron gates. See gardens of Italy Texas, New England, Pennsylvania, New York South Carolina, and Florida that will inspire you to the plant the seeds for your future beautiful gardens. Price:  £34.95 Antiques from the Garden by Alistair Morris 1999. 279pp, 250 colour and 500 b&w illus. Featuring some 200 years of gardening memorabilia, this revised edition brings together a broad range of garden related objects, from pergolas and fountains to mowing machines and wheelbarrows. Sections on garden games and garden ephemera are also included. Price:  £25.00 POTTERTON BOOKS : GARDENS AND PLANTS : GARDEN ORNAMENT AND ANTIQUES Buy Online - the best way to buy.