Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens by Geoff Hamilton

Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens by Geoff Hamilton

The cottage-garden style has been part of British gardening for centuries. The first cottage gardeners had little time, space and money, and designed simple and practical settings for their homes which, in time, developed into more elaborate, and sometimes extravagant, gardens. In this book Geoff Hamilton looks to the superb old cottages of the past and adapts the more popular features to modern gardens. In building three cottage gardens from scratch at his home in Barnsdale, he sets out to simplify the practical problems of creating a natural rustic look and shows how to build new constructions such as arbours and bowers, arches, seats and boundaries to suit readers' budgets. A diverse selection of planting plans emphasizing colour schemes and perfume, with explanations of how to cultivate cottage-style plants, has also been included. Practical advice covers a variety of subjects such as herbaceous plants, roses, perennials and annuals, climbers, bulbs, containers, herbs, vegetables and fruit.

Geoff Hamilton was an English gardener who was best known for hosting the BBC show Gardeners' World for many years. From 1979 to 1996, he was the show's host, and he wrote Gardeners' World: A Practical Gardening Course, Organic Gardening, and Geoff Hamilton's Paradise Gardens: Designing and Establishing a Secluded Garden. In 1996, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780563369851
ISBN 10	056336985X
Title	Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens
Author	Geoff Hamilton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Ebury Publishing
Year published	1995-01-05
Number of pages	256
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