Low Maintenance Garden - Softcover

Clevely, Andi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711229694 ISBN 13: 9780711229693

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2009

This is the book for gardeners who are enthusiastic but restricted by lack of opportunity, ability or stamina, or for those who want to have an attractive garden but are simply reluctant to devote time and energy to looking after one.

Andi Clevely shows you a combination of intelligent design and a practical approach can reduce the amount of maintenance and intervention needed to keep a garden both beautiful and trouble-free. He shows you how to honestly appraise what to include in the garden, carefully plan the way you look after it and understand all the processes involved that will help you avoid unnecessary work and demands for attention. The book includes a full range of recommended plant species and varieties, interspersed as features through the book.

The book follows the same principles as the first four books in the series, Patios, Water in the Garden, City Garden and Plants in Potsexplores the essential features of the subject; provides everything you need to know about it; written intelligently and creatively with a firmly practical focus; explains in straightforward language; stands out with an attractive contemporary design.

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About the Author:

Andi Clevely has spent thirty-five years as a working gardener. After taking a degree in English at Oxford he began his gardening career on the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park. Thereafter he was for many years employed as head gardener in private service (initially for J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes). He now lives in Wales, where he writes about gardening and tends his own hillside garden. His many books include Patios, Water in the Garden, City Garden, Plants in Pots and the bestselling Allotment Garden. As a journalist he writes regularly for The Garden, Homes and Gardens, The Field and BBC Gardener's World Magazine. In 2003 he won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for Practical Journalist of the Year. Award-winning photographer Steven Wooster specializes in the photography of gardens and plants. He lives in London.

Review:

Clever and practical, with masses of beautiful photographic inspiration (there are some stunning outdoor spaces here), Low Maintenance Gardening shows us how even the most hectic of schedules can include the garden. --Waterstone's Books Quarterly

Clevely demonstrates how careful planning and plant selection will give the garden you want. Clever and practical with masses of beautiful photographic inspiration. --Books Quarterly

Clever and practical, with masses of beautiful photographic inspiration (there are some stunning outdoor spaces here), Low Maintenance Gardening shows us how even the most hectic of schedules can include the garden. -- Waterstone's quarterly

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