Climbing Garden: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden - Hardcover

Clifton, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071121607X ISBN 13: 9780711216075

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2001

Synopsis

Gardening in the vertical plane can transform the dullest plot, giving it vital style and structure; this gardening source book shows you how. Featuring planting ideas and practical advice, it explores the potential for all types of planting supports, from simple latticework and tension wiring to pergolas, metal frames and living sculptures. It explains how you can use them to create different garden styles and moods, preserve privacy, increase the feeling of space, focus the eye and add some exuberant colour. The volume includes a comprehensive directory of the best plants for vertical supports and key projects illustrated in step-by-step photographs.

About this title

About the Author

Joan Clifton is the creative force behind Avant Garden, a London-based company specializing in creating wrought-iron and wirework forms for training topiary and creating living sculpture. Avant Garden's creations are sold worldwide and they are regular exhibitors at the Royal Horticultural Society garden shows, including Chelsea and Hampton Court. Joan is also the author of Making a White Garden and Garden Elements and contributes regularly to leading magazines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071121607X
• ISBN 13: 9780711216075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144