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Sowing Beauty
James Hitchmough
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Description for Sowing Beauty
Hardback. Sowing Beauty shows you how to recreate Hitchmough's masterful, romantic style. You'll will learn how to design and sow seed mixes that include a range of plants, both native and exotic, and how to maintain the sown spaces over time. Num Pages: 364 pages, 222 colour photographs, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216 x 32. .
The first book from an icon of landscape design. James Hitchmough is well-regarded in the design world for his exuberant, colourful, and flower-filled meadows. His signature style can be seen in prominent places like London's Olympic Park and the Botanic Garden at the University of Oxford. Using a distinct technique of sowing meadows from seed, he creates plant communities that mimic the dramatic beauty of natural meadows and offer a succession of blooms over many months - a technique that can be adapted to work in both large-scale public gardens and smaller residential gardens. Sowing Beauty shows you how to ... Read more
The first book from an icon of landscape design. James Hitchmough is well-regarded in the design world for his exuberant, colourful, and flower-filled meadows. His signature style can be seen in prominent places like London's Olympic Park and the Botanic Garden at the University of Oxford. Using a distinct technique of sowing meadows from seed, he creates plant communities that mimic the dramatic beauty of natural meadows and offer a succession of blooms over many months - a technique that can be adapted to work in both large-scale public gardens and smaller residential gardens. Sowing Beauty shows you how to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Timber Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Portland, OR, United States
ISBN
9781604696325
SKU
V9781604696325
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-26
About James Hitchmough
James Hitchmough is an expert in the design, ecology, and management of herbaceous vegetation. His techniques have been used to make meadows and meadow-like communities at prestigious sites worldwide. Hitchmough is head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Sheffield University in the UK.
Reviews for Sowing Beauty
This is a hopeful and expansive book for the gardener who can see a field as a canvas.
Publishers Weekly It's impossible not to be seduced by the drama and scale of meadow and prairie planting and James Hitchmough, professor at Sheffield University in the UK, has worked on some of the most magical ... Read more
Publishers Weekly It's impossible not to be seduced by the drama and scale of meadow and prairie planting and James Hitchmough, professor at Sheffield University in the UK, has worked on some of the most magical ... Read more