Your Outdoor Room: How to design a garden you can live in

"Manoj Malde’s new book, Your Outdoor Room: How to Design a Garden You Can Live In is a tour de force and is the perfect reading material if you’re considering designing your own garden. It's helpful, practical layout and illustrations allow the reader to understand the whole design process, from start to finish or to dip in and out of relevant chapters, accordingly. As an experienced garden designer myself, it’s evident that the book is appropriately pitched to help those with little, or no knowledge of the design process, whilst also sharing helpful and relevant information with experienced garden designers." – Mike Palmer, Chair of Garden Media Guild "Your Outdoor Room is a beautiful and vibrant book, but as well as being a stunning addition to any coffee table, it's a really useful guide for any reader to be able to design their own garden. Each section is broken down in an easy and understandable way, making it really accessible to beginners. There's even a section on soil and aftercare, which are two aspects that can often be forgotten and which really showcase Manoj's expertise as a garden designer." – Nina Mason, Pro Landscaper "Your Outdoor Room is one of the most beautiful and inspiring garden design books I’ve ever read. Colourful ideas bust from the page with Manoj Malde guiding us through the process of creating a unique and beautiful outdoor space. We learn how to survey our plot, create a site plan, and design lighting and planting plans. There’s sections on working with nature, with information on making homes for pollinators and habitats for wildlife. Sustainability is highlighted with sections on upcycling and recycling. Instructions are clear and accompanied by good quality photos and diagrams. Manoj gives us all the expert hints and tips to make creating a garden a success. And his personality and enthusiasm is infectious! He gives us the ideas, and then tells us how to achieve the garden of our dreams. Highly recommended reading!" – Karen Gimson, garden writer and speaker (BBC Radio Leicester)  "Creating a true relationship between your indoor and outdoor space is always the dream of any gardener and, thankfully, now we have this book to guide us through creating a garden we truly want to be in! Manoj is known for his flamboyant use of colour and texture and in this book, he shares his knowledge with us on how we might achieve a unique garden of our own with simple methods that work to great effect. My new garden design bible!" – Adam Kirtland, writer, speaker and host of 'View From the Potting Bench' "Having known Manoj for seven years his new book entitled Your Outdoor Room is a crowning glory of his meteoric rise from fashion designer to one of the leading garden designers in the UK. Manoj’s unique and colour approach to garden design is beautifully wrapped up inside this book. It is a real page turner with an array of colour jumping out at you. Creating the right outdoor room will bring you so much joy and happiness as does Manoj’s book." – Steve Clark, founder of Pea. "Having been aware of Manoj's vibrant style of garden design alongside a bold use of colour and texture in his designs I was expecting a beautiful looking book. What I love about the book though is how Manoj manages to provide a step by step practical guide to designing an outdoor space alongside beautiful imagery to push home his eloquent explanations of the process. The book is well thought through taking even the novice gardener through a simple process of firstly understanding their own individual needs from their outdoor space. Then the book explains both visually and in just enough detail all the key elements to creating a stunning outdoor room. A must for anyone looking to create a beautiful garden to suit their own individual style but does not know where to start." – Mark Spencer, photographer and film maker "Just finished Your Outdoor Room, this is a must have for anyone who is considering designing their own garden. Full of helpful guidance and tips on understanding your environment, the design process, and the selection of materials and plants. Well presented, easy to follow and engaging this is a must have on anyones bookshelf and is as vibrant and colourful as it’s author. A wonderful change to the normal selection, well done great read.” – Emma Mazzullo, Director of Mazzullo + Russell Landscape Design "Manoj Malde began his life as a garden designer by training at The English Gardening School in 2010, having previously been involved with the fashion industry. He worked very hard, always meeting deadlines and was a talented and very popular member of the class. We were all delighted when he branched out on his own as a designer, winning a silver-gilt Medal at his first Chelsea Flower Show Garden, with his Mexican garden full of the bright colours. Since then he has gone on to develop his own international design practice, designing large and small gardens. His first and recent book Your Outdoor Room: How to Design a Garden You Can Live In almost immediately became a best seller, covering all aspects of garden design from setting out a garden design plan, to keeping control of the budget and general garden maintenance. Now an Ambassador for the Royal Horticultural Society, Manoj is now a driving force in the Garden Design world." – Rosemary Alexander, Founder and principal of The English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London