Modern man-made materials and cutting-edge technologies have been used by artists, architects, and interior designers for decades. However, recently a new generation of garden designers has realized the potential of these materials and methods for creating gardens more in keeping with contemporary design and twenty-first century lifestyles. The New Tech Garden is a celebration of this innovative direction in garden design. New tech gardens, with their use of products not normally associated with gardens, such as plastic, perspex, steel, glass, and textiles, have led to a new style of garden with designs that are ideal for confined urban spaces, or for those who want an unconventional or an amusing low-maintenance garden in either the town or country. In The New Tech Garden award-winning and controversial garden designer Paul Cooper has chosen the very best examples of this type of garden, while explaining the inspiration behind each design. Private and public gardens from Europe, America, and Asia are presented in thematic chapters that range from high tech gardens that use industrial materials to soft gardens that employ textiles and other yielding surfaces. There are also kinetic gardens, instant assembly gardens, architectural extensions, for use during the night and day, gardens for difficult places such as rooftops, and gardens whose radical designs overthrow every garden design convention.