Plant Solutions is a brand new contemporary problem-solving guide to finding the right plant for the right place in your garden. Packed with plant suggestions, cultivation notes and companion ideas, Plant Solutions helps you create a suitable and successful planting scheme by finding plants to suit your garden’s needs.
Television presenter Nigel Colborn explains how to integrate containers into an ordinary garden, while for any gardeners with balconies or paved gardens, there are sections explaining how such areas can be turned into verdant gardens using containers alone.
For those who feared that creating a new garden meant long months with bare soil and twig-like young plants, for those who only plan a short stay in a new home and for those leading busy lives with little time for garden maintenance, Nigel Colborn has an array of simple, innovative schemes and solutions to achieve an integrated, well-established look almost instantly - and with a minimum of initial effort and maintenance. The author sets out designs, presents short-cut strategies, and grades materials and plants according to the time you might have available.
Gardeners throughout the centuries have built up a common fund of horticultural knowledge. This instructive and beautifully illustrated guide revives and preserves our rich gardening heritage by combining advice and information on tried-and-true gardening methods with a fascinating investigation and analysis of gardening techniques and designs throughout history. 300 color photos & diagrams.
Bring big punch to limited spaces. Since small gardens have no room for waste, the choice and arrangement of plants is crucial. Find out which ones earn their keep by virtue of their exceptional shape, color, fragrance, foliage, or exquisite, long-lasting flowers. Identify which bulbs, shrubs, and border perennials are best suited to form the "understory," which work best in containers, and which shine as star performers creating dramatic focus in a defined space. Extend your garden upward with pergolas and arches, house walls and fences, and encounter new ways of maximizing the output of small vegetable gardens. Detailed profiles are offered of the most desirable plants for specific locations, for formal and informal gardens, in sun or in shade, and a special section summarizes the qualities and uses of the 250 all-time best plants for diminutive spaces. With this book as a guide, your garden will know no limits.
This is an invaluable guide to traditional plants and long-lost gardening skills, and an absorbing reference source for those wishing to garden the natural way.
Planting by numbers is a simple way to make a beautiful garden. This text presents 20 inspiring plantings, all of which are fully explained using a colour planting plan, each numbered to a list of plants. Knowing which plants to use and where to put them, the reader can create a whole range of planting schemes. A wealth of cameo combinations illustrate successful plant associations and practical information is included on all aspects of creative planting.
Featuring beautiful color photographs, this guide offers examples of how bedding can work in different environments, explains five important qualities of bedding plants, and classifies the various types. A plant directory is also included, as well as information on design and theory, growing plants from seeds and cuttings, and the use of color.
When Anna's husband leaves her after 35 years of marriage, she feels stranded - too young to slip into decline and wait for death, too old to rebuild her family. Her pain is deepened as she realizes Bernard planned his departure for over 10 years.
This illustrated gardening guide extols the virtues and potentials of annuals and bedding plants, and includes many imaginative suggestions for using the commonest plants in colourful and unusual ways.
`I pray people will read this richly detailed and absorbing book, with its vivid renaissance of a matter most of us English seem to have wished into oblivion. ' John Fowles Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log of the Daniel and Henry provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in the year 1700. Two years earlier, the Guinea trade had been prised loose by an Act of Parliament from the monopoly of the Royal African Company, and respectable burghers in a dozen small provincial ports seized what they saw as an opportunity for quick rewards from the slave trade. Few of these merchants knew anything of trading in Africa, nor of the unscrupulous tribalchiefs who readily offered men, women and children in hard bargaining for beads, alcohol, weapons and gunpowder. In the second part of this book, Tattersfield went in search of long-forgotten documents to chart how small provincial ports fared both economically and morally in the early years of slave trading.
At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate. Created for reasons quite unconnected with the environment, the EU has been given a compelling new justification by the success of its environmental policy. A number of factors – including a number of threats that came to prominence in the 1980s, and the new concept of 'sustainable development' – are responsible for pushing environmental policy to the forefront of its agenda. Nigel Haigh, a leading authority on the development and implementation of EU environmental policy, traces its evolution from obscurity to centrality. Drawing on a range of articles and lectures, he demonstrates how the EU has not only adapted itself to take on entirely new subject matter, but also has contributed to solving problems which individual Member States could not have dealt with on their own. The book goes on to contextualise the issues throughout its history and offers insight into the future role of the EU in environmental matters. This book is a valuable resource for academics and scholars as well as professionals and policy makers in the areas of environment and sustainability, politics, international relations and European affairs.
Gardeners throughout the centuries have built up a common fund of horticultural knowledge. This instructive and beautifully illustrated guide revives and preserves our rich gardening heritage by combining advice and information on tried-and-true gardening methods with a fascinating investigation and analysis of gardening techniques and designs throughout history. 300 color photos & diagrams.
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