The Damp Garden - Hardcover

Chatto, Beth; Fischer, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898310482 ISBN 13: 9780898310481

Publisher: Sagapress, 1996

Synopsis

First published in 1982 (following the author's other book The Dry Garden ), and here reprinted with a new introduction by Thomas Fischer describing Chatto's style and its influence on and relevance to American gardeners, and with revisions to the plant index making it more useful for North American gardeners. Chatto is famous for her gardens in Elmstead Market, Essex. She describes her own successes and failures and gives detailed practical advice about plans, plants, and pitfalls for pond gardens, swamp gardens, shady damp borders, and meadow beds of various types and sizes. Includes line drawings and color photos of Chatto's garden. Distributed by Timber Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

Book Description:

Improbably enough, the eminent English plantswoman's own garden & nursery in East Anglia led her to write these classics, since both problems occur on her property. Her disarmingly simple solution-match the plant to the site, soil, & climate-has succeeded in turning this nursery into one of the world's great horticultural resources.

About the Author:

Beth Chatto runs her own Garden and Nursery for Unusual Plants at Elmstead Market near Colchester. Winner of ten Gold Medals at Chelsea, she also holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour and an honorary doctorate from Essex University for her services to horticulture. She is the author of a host of gardening classics and is also co-author of Dear Friend and Gardener, written with her long-standing friend and fellow gardener, Christopher Lloyd.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sagapress
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0898310482
• ISBN 13: 9780898310481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348