The Low-Maintenance Garden: A Complete Guide to Designs, Plants and Techniques for Easy-care Gardens. This item is unavailable.The Low-Maintenance Garden: A Complete Guide to Designs, Plants and Techniques for Easy-care Gardens

A guide to planning and planting a beautiful, bountiful garden includes a host of time-saving, low-work techniques for building healthy soil and hundreds of ideas for easy-care plants and gardens, including advice on how to reduce the time spent on basic gardening upkeep, a directory of low-maintenance plants, descriptions of easy-care surfaces and structures, and more.

Susan Berry is a gardening writer and editor with more than 20 books and many magazine articles to her credit, including contributions to Gardener's World and Homes & Gardens. Her previous books include The City Garden, Contained Gardens, Best Plants, Laura Ashley Color and, as co-author, Plants for Small Spaces from Firefly Books. She lives in London.

Steve Bradley has a Royal Horticultural Society Master of Horticulture Diploma and was Director of Horticulture at Merrist Wood College in England for many years before pursuing a career in journalism. He has gardening programs on television and radio, and has written a number of books on gardening including two books with co-author Susan Berry: Contained Gardens, The Pruning Handbook and Plant Life. He lives in England.