The Free-Spirited Garden: Gorgeous Gardens That Flourish Naturally - Softcover

McClure, Susan

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9780811821124: The Free-Spirited Garden: Gorgeous Gardens That Flourish Naturally

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ISBN 10: 0811821129 ISBN 13: 9780811821124

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1999

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A free-spirited garden is the ultimate low-maintenance choice for people who delight in spontaneity and abundance. Garden writer Susan McClure is just such a person, and here ?she brings a delightful sense of abandon to her easy-to-follow instructions for creating lush gardens with a life of their own. Lavishly photographed, The Free-Spirited Garden offers practical advice on gardening with self-sowing annuals, biennials, and perennials for a variety of climates and landscapes. Turn a high-maintenance lawn into a meadow blanketed with bright perennials; create a shaded woodland retreat; install a tiny headstrong herb garden-The Free-Spirited Garden leads the way to a delightful array of quick and easy backyard transformations, whatever the space available. Now any outdoor area can blossom into a burgeoning, resplendent garden full of wonderful surprises.?

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About the Author:

Susan McClure has contributed to the New York Times , Horticulture , Organic Gardening , and Better Homes & Gardens and is the author of many gardening books. She lives in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Review:

For those of you who like your outdoor spaces a little rough around the edges, Susan McClure's 'The Free Spirited Garden' will be an inspiration. McClure shows you how to create 'lavish gardens that flourish naturally'-that is, woodland, prairie, and meadow-style gardens. With gorgeous photographs and practical advice on how to cultivate self-sowing annuals, biennials, and perennials, this is your passport to the country cottage look (instead of the overgrown patch of weeds look!). -- Bridal Guide

Lush meadows and cozy little Edens can be grown with creeping plants and flowers that reseed themselves. A prairie garden, a reminder of America's past, can flourish even beside a city sidewalk. -- People

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