TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hitchmough,James
TI  - Sowing beauty: designing flowering meadows from seed 
SN  - 9781604696325
AV  - SB439 .H58 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Portland, Oregon
PB  - Timber Press
KW  - Meadow gardening
KW  - Meadows
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-350) and index; Looking to nature for inspiration and design wisdom -- Designing naturalistic herbaceous plant communities -- Seed mix design, implementation, and initial establishment -- Establishment and management -- Case studies of sown prairies, meadows, and steppe. The Eden Project ; RHS Garden Harlow Carr Primula Meadows ; Sheffield Botanical Gardens Prairie ; RHS Garden Wisley Steppe-Prairie ; Fidelity International ; Tom Stuart-Smith's home prairie garden -- The Merton Borders at University of Oxford Botanic Garden ; Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park U.K. Native Wildflower Meadows ; Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Stitches ; RHS Garden Wisley South African Meadow ; Kaixian Eclectic Prairie-Meadow
N2  - Sowing Beauty describes a revolutionary way to create beautiful, ecologically based plantings.  Noted designer James Hitchmough shows how to create seed mixtures that, once sown, require only simple-low-intensity maintenance to mature into stable communities.  For anyone interested in a naturalistic landscape, the techniques detailed in this groundbreaking work are the next frontier.--COVER
UR  - https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/sowing-beauty/
ER  -