Rock Gardens (Harrowsmith Gardeners Guides) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1895565944 ISBN 13: 9781895565942

Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

This gardener's guide presents a fresh approach to rock gardening - a botanical art practiced as early as the 15th century. Eight gardening specialists combine to produce a comprehensive book, offering advice on design, construction and drainage.

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Beautiful Simplicity
This gardeners' guide presents a fresh approach to rock gardening - a botanical art practiced as early as the 15th century by Zen monks, and, later, by ambitious Victorians hoping to capture the essence of the flowering mountainsides of Europe.

The combined experiences of eight gardening specialists have produced a comprehensive and beautiful book, offering both practical advice on design, construction and drainage of rock gardens and an illustrated species-by-species listing of suitable plants. This guide will be of particular interest to urban and rural gardeners living in Canada and the northern United States.

Chapters comprise:

· A Brief History of Rock Gardens

· Stone and Sand and Peat

· These Lovely Plants

· Rock Garden Plants from A to Z

· Resources: Rock Garden Societies and Publications

· Sources: Mail-Order Directory

· Index

About this edition

• Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1895565944
• ISBN 13: 9781895565942
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Ferguson Katharine