Beds and Borders (Garden Project Workbooks) - Softcover

Bird, Richard; Carter, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556706898 ISBN 13: 9781556706899

Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1998

Synopsis

Offers twenty projects for garden beds and borders, including a dry-climate border, a scented pathway, and a cottage-flower path border

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Bird's many books include Fences and Hedges, The Kitchen Garden, The Scented Garden, and Projects for Small Gardens.

From Publishers Weekly:

The latest installment in the Garden Project Workbooks series features the same stylish, practical format as its predecessors (Containers, etc.). A concealed spiral binding allows the book to lie flat, giving gardeners the option of using it on-site, while gatefold pages reveal the specifics behind each lushly photographed project. Bird (Flowering Trees and Shrubs) tackles a quartet of classic garden border elements here: traditional borders (mixed, herbaceous, etc.); those that are shaped (round, corner, parterre); special borders (waterside, Mediterranean, etc.); and walk-through borders. Packed with solid information, the book includes construction tips on everything from trellises to bark paths, necessary tools for each project and detailed planting schemes which generously feature alternate plant lists for nearly every design (suitable choices for a white as well as a pink single-color bed, for instance). Additionally, there's a section on basic gardening techniques and a list of mail-order nurseries and garden suppliers located in the U.S. and Canada. This handsome and useful title successfully executes a winning concept.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1556706898
• ISBN 13: 9781556706899
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112