100 Perfect Plants by Simon Akeroyd

100 Perfect Plants by Simon Akeroyd

Some 80% of people who visit National Trust properties do so to look at the garden. And the glories of NT gardens include their incredible beds and borders--plants that bring color, drama and surprises year round. In this book, a senior NT gardener gives you a foolproof plan to get similar effects in your own garden with 100 key plants. How to plan, how to plant, how to prune. All of the plants will be easily available, and he will give alternatives if you want to mix things up. The book is organized seasonally, with features on important skills and tasks for each season--such as testing your soil, planting bulbs, pruning for winter and so on.

Simon Akeroyd has written several bestselling practical gardening books: Lawns and Ground Cover (DK 2012), Shrubs and Small Trees (DK 2007), Allotment Handbook (Mitchell Beazley 2013). He is currently Garden Manager for the National Trust English Riviera portfolio but before that he was Garden and Countryside Manager at Polesden Lacey in Surrey, and a RHS Garden Manager. Between 2001–05 he worked at the BBC as a horticultural researcher and writer on various gardening programmes.

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ISBN 13	9781909881952
ISBN 10	1909881953
Title	100 Perfect Plants
Author	Simon Akeroyd
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2017-04-13
Number of pages	224
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