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How to be a Gardener: Book Two ISBN: 0563534052 ISBN13: 9780563534051 How to be a Gardener: Book Two By: Alan Titchmarsh : Photographs by Jonathan Buckley Publisher: BBC Books Format: Hardback Our Price: 14.59 Discount: 27% RRP: 19.99

Alan is back with this second volume which looks in depth at all areas of designing and planting to ensure you make the most of your garden. Alan's love of gardening and years of experience designing gardens really come to the fore as he demonstrates how to create a garden to be proud of. Covering both design and plants, the chapters include boundaries and climbers, patios and containers, borders and perennials and water and wildlife gardens. Each chapter includes practical advice on design and planning, step-by-step projects to re-vamp your garden, and a host of Alan's favourite plants to guide you in your selection. With its balance of practical advice and inspirational ideas, How to be a Gardener Book Two gets to the very heart of gardening and, together with How to be a Gardener Book One , provides a complete reference manual for any garden owner.


Contents:

Your design: garden design in history
- what's right for you?
- working with nature
- contemporary gardens
- natural gardens
- family gardens
- paved gardens
- cottage gardens
- making a plan
- regulation rectangles
- long and lean
- tricky triangular

Vertical gardening: what's it about?
- hedges
- which hedging plants?
- fences
- walls
- garden structures
- climbers
- clematis
- climbing roses
- rambler roses

Patio gardening: perfect patios
- building a slab patio
- building decking
- filling in the gaps
- plants for patio beds
- paths and steps
- container gardening
- top of the pots
- the year-round patio

Beds and borders: placing plants
- design rules
- trees
- evergreen shrubs
- deciduous shrubs
- filling in the fine detail
- roses
- perennials
- grasses
- ground-cover plants
- bulbs
- exotics
- annuals and biennials
- rock plants

Water features: design considerations
- ponds
- water features
- water plants
- bog gardens
- bog plants

Edible gardens: growing your own
- traditional vegetables
- ornamental vegetables
- salads
- growing in containers
- patio crops
- fruit
- herbs

Wildlife gardens: gardens and wildlife
- making a wildlife garden
- wild flowers

Covered gardens: greenhouse gardening
- greenhouse jobs
- greenhouse crops
- ornamental plants
- the conservatory
- conservatory plants
- under-cover nursery
- propagation methods
- caring for your plants

Epilogue.

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