Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens - Hardcover

Hamilton, Geoff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 056336985X ISBN 13: 9780563369851

Publisher: BBC Books, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Product Description:

Looks to the old cottage gardens of the past and adapts the more popular features to modern gardens. In building three cottage gardens from scratch at his home in Barnsdale, Geoff Hamilton set out to simplify the practical problems of creating a natural rustic look.

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 056336985X
• ISBN 13: 9780563369851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256