Greece - Softcover
Whether you are coaxing climbers out of pots on a balcony, or are carving a garden from several acres of rocky wilderness, this book offers invaluable advice. Find out how to deal with drought, pests, high winds, fire and soil erosion. You won't need a budget for artificial fertilisers and pesticides. This book teaches you how to compost, mulch and turn one pest against another. Lavishly illustrated and clearly laid out, Greece: garden of the Gods offers comprehensive advice on when, where and whether you should use a particular plant. It tells you how plants came to be named in Greek mythology. The final section offers a directory of Mediterranean climate species including trees, shrubs, bulbs, climbers, palms, perennials and succulents. Landscape designer and Athens News columnist Jennifer Gay draws on a decade of experience in the Mediterranean to show you how to succeed in an environmentally friendly way.
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From the Author:
"A spring day on a hillside in Greece is an unforgettable experience, with warmth of the sun on your skin, a tapestry of colour beneath your feet and startling blue seas and skies stretching before you. How lovely it would be to capture that quintessential Greekness and transfer it to your own plot ... whenever I begin to garden anywhere, one of the first things I consider is which plants grow naturally in that locality ... and why. By taking note of those plants content in their place - either growing in the wild or in gardens - I gather ideas about what could flourish. Greece has many plants that are excellent candidates for garden use."
About the Author:
Jennifer Gay is a landscape architect and gardener. She studied gardening at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden, Rosemoor, in North Devon, and landscape architecture, gaining an MA from the University of Sheffield. After working as a landscape designer in the south of England, she spent several years living and gardening in Jerusalem. She moved to Greece in 1999 to work at the Mediterranean Garden Society's garden in Sparoza, near Athens. She managed the development of a new botanical garden on the Ionian island of Kefalonia from 2001 to 2004. She has been designing and making gardens in Greece since then. She has been the "Athens News" gardening columnist since 2000.
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- PublisherAthens News Publications,Greece
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 9608639549
- ISBN 13 9789608639546
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Number of pages300
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