A Beautiful Obsession by Jimi Blake

A Beautiful Obsession by Jimi Blake

Jimi Blake has spent 25 years collecting the most interesting plants he could get his hands on. At Hunting Brook, these come together in a unique fusion of funky foliage, perennial, and woodland styles to make a flamboyant, surprising, experimental garden that is overflowing with ideas for enthusiastic gardeners. Exotic-leaved plants from the Far East and South America rub shoulders with temperate perennials to excite the eye. Trees are pollarded, salvias and dahlias are present in abundance, and borders are unconstrained. Jimi's eagle eye for flaws means plants that don't quite cut the mustard are ruthlessly dispatched and the garden is constantly being scrutinized and reinvented. A Beautiful Obsession inspires new garden projects, rewrites the rule book about combining plants, and will have plant enthusiasts reaching for specialist nursery catalogues.

Noel Kingsbury is a writer, researcher, and educator. He has been a gardener from boyhood, running a nursery, designing gardens and public places, and conducting PhD research on the ecology of decorative perennials at the University of Sheffield's Department of Landscape. He lives and gardens near Hay-on-Wye in the Welsh Borders.

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ISBN 13	9781739903961
ISBN 10	173990396X
Title	A Beautiful Obsession
Author	Jimi Blake
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Filbert Press
Year published	2024-07-04
Number of pages	240
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