Description
SHORT CUTS
TO GREAT GARDENS
How to make your garden look good NOW –
whether you want an instant garden, a fast planting
strategy, or just quick cheats to suggest long
establishment, SHORT CUTS TO GREAT GARDENS
is packed with ideas to reduce the lead time to
maturity in your garden.
Crusty professionals would have you believe that
in gardening, there are no short cuts. Patience is the
key to success, they insist, and you must first plant-
and then wait, and wait, and wait. Your site might be
virgin territory or just neglected and overgrown,
but whatever the garden of your dreams, television
presenter and gardening writer Nigel Colborn has
ways to cheat time to create it.
Six original schemes for complete gardens range
from a one-season Formal Garden to a low-
maintenance Woodland Garden. Chapters weigh
the merits of all the various materials and
structures you are likely to consider for your
garden, from surfaces to hedges. Star ratings point
you to the choices that will not only look good in the
shortest time, but require minimum maintenance
too. The book is brimming with Short Cut Strategies
for instant effects, from making the paths narrow so
that plants spill over them, to using such elements
as containers and bulbs to give the garden height
and structure.
Canny planting can create a super-fast garden,
and Nigel provides a unique, star-graded listing of
the best ones to choose. Beautiful illustrations
suggest ways to put plants together, and to ensure
they stay in the best of health he can suggest short-
cut ways to tackle the traditional gardening
procedures. too, from propagating to weeding.
Fully illustrated with examples of short-cut
gardens, and with original full colour artwork,
SHORT CUTS TO GREAT GARDENS is the
gardening book for the busy lifestyles of the 1990s.
It shows that even on a tight schedule and a tight
budget, you can be fully armed to create a garden of
good standing with a long future – within the very
briefest of seasons.
144 pages
Hardcover
In very good to excellent preloved condition with the exception of a creased page before the title page and some remnants of adhesive from tape in a small area (50mm by 25mm) at the bottom of the back cover. A beautiful book with over 150 illustrations.