The Natural Gardener by Chris Beardshaw
Chris Beardshaw shows readers how to develop gardens that are in tune with nature, where plants will flourish with minimum effort. The book is based on his TV series, The Flying Gardener, in which Chris looks at plants in different habitats and discovers how nature achieves what the gardener strives for. He reveals how to put this knowledge into practice when selecting and cultivating plants for a domestic setting. The book begins with a chapter that enables gardeners to understand the conditions in which they garden and how these will affect their choice of plants. Chris identifies five types of garden ? rock, water, wood, wetland and meadow gardens - and explores each in detail in the following chapters. He includes practical information on plant selection, maintenance and pruning, and the book is peppered with fascinating facts about both domestic and wild gardens. The Natural Gardener proves that the best gardeners are those who understand the importance of the conditions in which they garden ? and that the best teacher is nature itself.
Back to basics in the gardenBack to nature too. Not all gardeners are as tuned in to the rhythms of nature as they could be, and they make gardening much harder than it needs to be as a result. They are up against it a lot of the time, trying to grow the wrong plants in the wrong conditions. The principle here is that nature will complete what the gardener strives for, providing the gardener works with and not against garden type, setting and climate. This is above all a practical gardening book filled with details (and illustrations) about how to grow plants successfully in the right conditions. Gardener, know thy garden, is the message. The author has his own BBC2 series The Flying Gardener and is a presenter on Gardener's World.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780563488040 |
| ISBN 10 | 0563488042 |
| Title | The Natural Gardener |
| Author | Chris Beardshaw |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 2003-02-20 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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