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Drought-Resistant Planting: Lessons from Beth Chatto´s Gravel Garden
Beth Chatto
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Description for Drought-Resistant Planting: Lessons from Beth Chatto´s Gravel Garden
Paperback. The story of how Beth Chatto created her famous gravel garden will give hope to all gardeners who hope their plants may flourish in spite of poor soil and drought. Num Pages: 192 pages, 120 colour photographs and garden plans. BIC Classification: WMD; WMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 194 x 17. Weight in Grams: 742.
The story of how Beth Chatto created her gravel garden on 'possibly the driest, and the most windswept, piece of soil in England' has a message of hope for gardeners everywhere. At the outset she promised herself: 'This garden was not to be irrigated in times of drought. Once established the plants must fend for themselves or die.' The results, eloquently described by the author and beautifully portrayed in Steven Wooster' ... Read more
The story of how Beth Chatto created her gravel garden on 'possibly the driest, and the most windswept, piece of soil in England' has a message of hope for gardeners everywhere. At the outset she promised herself: 'This garden was not to be irrigated in times of drought. Once established the plants must fend for themselves or die.' The results, eloquently described by the author and beautifully portrayed in Steven Wooster' ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780711238114
SKU
V9780711238114
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-96
About Beth Chatto
Beth Chatto (born 27/06/1923) is a plantswomen, gardener and writer. Whilst having no formal horticultural training, she was inspired by her parents' enthusiastic gardening, her husband's lifelong study of natural associations of plants, and friendship with the great plantsman and artist Sir Cedric Morris. The Beth Chatto Gardens began at Elmstead Market, Essex in 1960. By ... Read more
Reviews for Drought-Resistant Planting: Lessons from Beth Chatto´s Gravel Garden
Edited with a true artist's eye [...] the beauty of the structural flowering hummocks, the pools, pockets and ribbons of colour, the textural contrasts with punctuating verticals and Mrs. Chatto's now famous plant veils , is unsurpassed.
Helen Yemm
The Daily Telegraph
Beth Chatto has to be the plantswoman of the century because she ... Read more
Helen Yemm
The Daily Telegraph
Beth Chatto has to be the plantswoman of the century because she ... Read more