20.12.02
The
Natural Gardener
If
your style is to garden naturally, to plan and plant in sympathy
with the land, then there could be no better book than this. Practical
and inspiring, The Natural Gardener shows readers how to develop
gardens that are in tune with nature, where plants will flourish
with the minimum of fuss. Written by the popular 大象传媒 gardening presenter,
Chris Beardshaw, and based on his TV series, The Flying Gardener,
the book studies a variety of plants in different habitats and reveals
how nature achieves what the gardener strives for.
The
philosophy central to the book is that to use any plant in your
garden successfully, you need to provide it with a site that mimics
its preferred surroundings in the wild. In Chapter One, Understanding
Your Garden, Chris enables gardeners to appreciate the conditions
in which they garden and how these will affect their choice of plants.
In the chapters that follow, he proceeds to identify five types
of landscape, from angular Rock Gardens dotted with alpines to shady
Woodland Gardens scattered with bluebells, and explores each one
in detail.
Complete
with beautiful photography and practical information on plant selection
and maintenance, The Natural Gardener demonstrates that the best
gardeners are those who understand the importance of the conditions
in which they garden - and that the best teacher is nature itself.
Chris
Beardshaw is one of the principal presenters on Gardeners' World.
He has also appeared on Gardening Neighbours, as co-presenter with
Ali Ward. As a solo presenter he has fronted his recent series Hidden
Gardens, as well as three series of The Flying Gardener with a fourth
due in spring 2003. Before his TV career, he studied landscape architecture
and took a degree in Horticulture at Pershore College. After university
he ran his own garden design business while teaching, to degree
level, at his old college. He has designed many show gardens, winning
a gold at Chelsea in 1999 for his "Dig for Victory" garden.
Notes
to Editors
Published:
20 February 2003 Price: 拢20.00 (HB) ISBN: 0563 488042
The
new 15-part series of The Flying Gardener broadcasts on 大象传媒2 in
March 2003. For further information, please contact Becky Jones-Owen
on tel. 0121 432 8570.
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