diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/README.md b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/README.md
index b71bd5d9ab53c..1ed090155c37e 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/README.md
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/README.md
@@ -72,24 +72,29 @@ const router = mesh.addVirtualRouter('router', {
 });
 ```
 
-The router can also be created using the constructor and passing in the mesh instead of calling the `addVirtualRouter()` method for the mesh.
-The same pattern applies to all constructs within the appmesh library, for any mesh.addXZY method, a new constuctor can also be used.
-This is particularly useful for cross stack resources are required.
-Where creating the `mesh` as part of an infrastructure stack and creating the `resources` such as `nodes` is more useful to keep in the application stack.
+Note that creating the router using the `addVirtualRouter()` method places it in the same Stack that the mesh belongs to
+(which might be different from the current Stack).
+The router can also be created using the constructor of `VirtualRouter` and passing in the mesh instead of calling the `addVirtualRouter()` method.
+This is particularly useful when splitting your resources between many Stacks,
+like creating the `mesh` as part of an infrastructure stack,
+but the other resources, such as routers, in the application stack:
 
 ```ts
-const mesh = new Mesh(stack, 'AppMesh', {
+const mesh = new Mesh(infraStack, 'AppMesh', {
   meshName: 'myAwsmMesh',
-  egressFilter: MeshFilterType.Allow_All,
+  egressFilter: MeshFilterType.ALLOW_ALL,
 });
 
-const router = new VirtualRouter(stack, 'router', {
-  mesh, // notice that mesh is a required property when creating a router with a new statement
-  listeners: [ appmesh.VirtualRouterListener.http(8081) ]
-  }
+// the VirtualRouter will belong to 'appStack',
+// even though the Mesh belongs to 'infraStack'
+const router = new VirtualRouter(appStack, 'router', {
+  mesh: mesh, // notice that mesh is a required property when creating a router with the 'new' statement
+  listeners: [appmesh.VirtualRouterListener.http(8081)],
 });
 ```
 
+The same is true for other `add*()` methods in the AppMesh library.
+
 The _VirtualRouterListener_ class provides an easy interface for defining new protocol specific listeners.
 The `http()`, `http2()`, `grpc()` and `tcp()` methods are available for use.
 They accept a single port parameter, that is used to define what port to match requests on.
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/lib/mesh.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/lib/mesh.ts
index a1cd5b49904a5..c3d768660117e 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/lib/mesh.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-appmesh/lib/mesh.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export enum MeshFilterType {
 }
 
 /**
- * Interface wich all Mesh based classes MUST implement
+ * Interface which all Mesh based classes MUST implement
  */
 export interface IMesh extends cdk.IResource {
   /**
@@ -41,17 +41,23 @@ export interface IMesh extends cdk.IResource {
   readonly meshArn: string;
 
   /**
-   * Adds a VirtualRouter to the Mesh with the given id and props
+   * Creates a new VirtualRouter in this Mesh.
+   * Note that the Router is created in the same Stack that this Mesh belongs to,
+   * which might be different than the current stack.
    */
   addVirtualRouter(id: string, props?: VirtualRouterBaseProps): VirtualRouter;
 
   /**
-   * Adds a VirtualNode to the Mesh
+   * Creates a new VirtualNode in this Mesh.
+   * Note that the Node is created in the same Stack that this Mesh belongs to,
+   * which might be different than the current stack.
    */
   addVirtualNode(id: string, props?: VirtualNodeBaseProps): VirtualNode;
 
   /**
-   * Adds a VirtualGateway to the Mesh
+   * Creates a new VirtualGateway in this Mesh.
+   * Note that the Gateway is created in the same Stack that this Mesh belongs to,
+   * which might be different than the current stack.
    */
   addVirtualGateway(id: string, props?: VirtualGatewayBaseProps): VirtualGateway;
 }
@@ -108,7 +114,7 @@ export interface MeshProps {
   /**
    * The name of the Mesh being defined
    *
-   * @default - A name is autmoatically generated
+   * @default - A name is automatically generated
    */
   readonly meshName?: string;