Best Borders - Tony Lord
KORTE INHOUD
This is a practical guide to the planning, planting and maintenance of garden borders. There are schemes to inspire every discerning gardener: from richly planted double borders to skilfully designed flower beds in a narrow town garden.
Tony Lord looks behind the scenes to discover how innovative gardeners have achieved herbaceous and mixed borders that are models of excellence. His discussions with the creators of the borders (or with horticulturists
familiar with their original intentions), and with the gardeners who maintain them, reveal how each border's distinctive style and individuality are attained. He explains the practical techniques and principles that are applicable world-wide and that can be used to obtain coordinated and sophisticated results, as effective at close range as from a distance.
With detailed planting plans and glorious full-colour photographs of each border taken through the seasons, this book for gardeners to plunder for its wealth of practical advise and inspiring ideas.
Tony Lord looks behind the scenes to discover how innovative gardeners have achieved herbaceous and mixed borders that are models of excellence. His discussions with the creators of the borders (or with horticulturists
familiar with their original intentions), and with the gardeners who maintain them, reveal how each border's distinctive style and individuality are attained. He explains the practical techniques and principles that are applicable world-wide and that can be used to obtain coordinated and sophisticated results, as effective at close range as from a distance.
With detailed planting plans and glorious full-colour photographs of each border taken through the seasons, this book for gardeners to plunder for its wealth of practical advise and inspiring ideas.
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