Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden : How to Cultivate a Garden Full of Flowers, Herbs, Trees, Fruit, Vegetables and Livestock, with 300 Inspirational Photographs

English

ISBN: 1903141710

EAN: 9781903141717

Category: Gardening / General

Publisher: Anness Publishing

Release Date: 04/16/2012

Synopsis: This sumptuous book starts with a history of the cottage garden. A chapter on planning and design introduces the main styles and the familiar features of the cottage garden are then covered in turn - from hedges and fences, to paths, arches, furniture and the creative reuse of materials. The following two chapters focus on growing flowers and shrubs and fruit and vegetables. Step-by-step sequences include how to protect young plants, plan a four-year crop rotation, and prune fruit trees. A chapter on livestock and wildlife shows how to care for chickens and other animals, and how to attract wildlife from birds and bees to hedgehogs and bats. A comprehensive directory then breaks down the wide variety of plants that give the cottage garden its appeal.

Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden : How to Cultivate a Garden Full of Flowers, Herbs, Trees, Fruit, Vegetables and Livestock, with 300 Inspirational Photographs

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.76 inches

Width: 9.33 inches

Length: 11.25 inches

Weight: 38.62 oz

Pages: 160