The Well-tempered Garden
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The Well-tempered Garden by Christopher Lloyd
The Well-Tempered Garden is for gardeners who have not been dragged into this pursuit but are here because they love it. So writes Christopher Lloyd in the Introduction to this superb book. Here the beginning gardener will learn the basic skills of planting, pruning, weeding, staking, and deadheading. More advanced gardening enthusiasts are guided through ways to propagate plants, to select and care for different kinds of plants - perennials, shrubs, climbers, bulbs - and are also offered ideas about the many different kinds of gardens one might keep. He offers advice on roses, vegetables, fruits, ornamental plants, wild gardening in grass, and more.A strong-minded instructor, Lloyd knows that errors are inevitable, and rather than scolding encourages learning through experience. He opens our eyes to the beauty of the unexpected surprises that happen in the garden, whether on the part of the fallible plant or the fallible gardener. All this from the man Henry Mitchell called possibly the best garden writer alive. (6 X 9, 480 pages, illustrations)
Carol Casselden is an award-winning photographer of gardens and plants. Fergus Garrett was chosen by Christopher Lloyd as his head gardener at Dixter in 1992. He worked closely with Christo until Lloyd's death in 2006. He is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, and also combines his full-time, hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing all over the world. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS in 2015 and in 2019, the coveted RHS Victoria Medal of Honour. Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006) was one of the greatest gardeners of the 20th century and has been described as the world's finest-ever garden writer. He devoted his life to his garden at Great Dixter, and he produced some of the most influential gardening books of the last 100 years. He was make OBE in 2000 and held the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society, the Victoria Medal of Honour.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002119290 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002119293 |
| Title | The Well-tempered Garden |
| Author | Christopher Lloyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Distribution Services |
| Year published | 1970-09-14 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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