Beds And Borders

A highly illustrated, plant-by-numbers guide to planning and planting your ideal garden Whether you're planning your first garden or want to try something new without all the trial and error, Beds and Borders provides easy, step-by-step, illustrated plans for more than ninety garden projects. Each project comes complete with an inspirational color photo and an overhead-plan-view planting plan with a planting grid to show correct spacing and plant size. A plant list accompanies each project and doubles as a shopping list, making it simple and easy to gather all your supplies and plants in one quick trip to your local garden supply store. Features more than ninety garden projects and more than 300 photos and illustrations Includes simple, well-illustrated, step-by-step instructions Provides informative tips and hints, including descriptions of the best plants for specific circumstances, regional notes for ways to adapt gardens for various regions across the country, and frugal gardening suggestions. Offers problem-solution features that detail regional notes to explain the best plants for particular regions and garden plans for difficult-to-landscape features like slopes and shade For first-timers and green thumbs alike, Beds and Borders offers something for every gardener.

This beautifully photographed book takes readers on a tour of America's most glorious gardens to illustrate ingenious and pragmatic solutions to different planting situations. Here are edible beds, classic herb gardens, formal and informal borders, the newly popular "wild look", waterside gardens, desert landscapes, and more. 125 color photographs.

Guide to creating beds and borders for a beautiful garden.

Are you looking for inspiration on how to create the perfect border, or ideas to suit a tricky corner? Whether you have a tiny urban balcony or a large country garden, you can make the most of your space all year round with careful planning and clever planting.

Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops - without back-breaking effort! Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well now you can! By following the simple steps set out in No Dig, in just a few short hours you can revolutionize your vegetable patch with plants already in the ground from day one! Charles Dowding is on a mission to teach that there is no need to dig over the soil, but by minimizing intervention you are actively boosting soil productivity. In fact, The less you dig, the more you preserve soil structure and nurture the fungal mycelium vital to the health of all plants. This is the essence of the No Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime growing vegetables. So put your gardening gloves on and get ready to discover: - Guides and calendars of when to sow, grow, and harvest. - Inspiring information and first-hand guidance from the author - “Delve deeper” features look in-depth at the No Dig system and the facts and research that back it up. - The essential role of compost and how to make your own at home. - The importance of soil management, soil ecology, and soil health. Now one of the hottest topics in environmental science, this "wood-wide web" has informed Charles's practice for decades, and he's proven it isn't just trees that benefit - every gardener can harness the power of the wood-wide web. Featuring newly- commissioned step-by-step photography of all stages of growing vegetables and herbs, and all elements of No Dig growing, shot at Charles’s beautiful market garden in Somerset, you too will be able to grow more veg with less time and effort, and in harmony with nature - so join the No Dig revolution today! A must-have volume for followers of Charles Dowding who fervently believe in his approach to low input, high yield gardening, as well as gardeners who want to garden more lightly on the earth, with environmentally friendly techniques like organic and No Dig.

Presents garden design projects for creating small and large gardens with a variety of light conditions, with ideas for individual plantings in beds and borders.

Covers mixed garden design concepts, exploring color, texture, form, principles, and maintenance.

An illustratedcollection of more than 400of the best plant combinations for landscape summer color."