Revive your garden : how to bring your outdoor space back to life /
Bailey, Nick,
Revive your garden : how to bring your outdoor space back to life / Nick Bailey ; photography by Jonathan Buckley. - 223 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes index.
Understand : the opportunities and limitations of your garden -- Prune : revive worn out and overgrown trees and shrubs -- Eradicate & reinvigorate : ridding the garden of weeks and reviving soil and turf -- Shape up -- developing a design to work for your space -- Layer up : adding new plants to existing landscapes -- Refresh : plants to suit numerous growing environments -- How to wow! : unusual plants, features and structures to upgrade your plot -- Restore structures : bringing life back to degraded hard landscapes and buildings -- Revival tasks by season.
"Focusing on simple ideas, techniques and design solutions that anyone can achieve, Nick's guidance will instil in the reader the confidence to tackle restoring any space. His advice will include all the vital steps, beginning with assessing and understanding your site, and progressing through the pruning and layering of existing planting, and the shaping of your space, to what to plant in specific areas and how to wow with unusual choices. Nick will also give advice on what to do and when to do it, with seasonal guidance on the best times to undertake basic tasks, so that reviving your garden becomes both satisfying and rewarding."--
0857834320 9780857834324
Gardening.
Photobooks.
Revive your garden : how to bring your outdoor space back to life / Nick Bailey ; photography by Jonathan Buckley. - 223 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes index.
Understand : the opportunities and limitations of your garden -- Prune : revive worn out and overgrown trees and shrubs -- Eradicate & reinvigorate : ridding the garden of weeks and reviving soil and turf -- Shape up -- developing a design to work for your space -- Layer up : adding new plants to existing landscapes -- Refresh : plants to suit numerous growing environments -- How to wow! : unusual plants, features and structures to upgrade your plot -- Restore structures : bringing life back to degraded hard landscapes and buildings -- Revival tasks by season.
"Focusing on simple ideas, techniques and design solutions that anyone can achieve, Nick's guidance will instil in the reader the confidence to tackle restoring any space. His advice will include all the vital steps, beginning with assessing and understanding your site, and progressing through the pruning and layering of existing planting, and the shaping of your space, to what to plant in specific areas and how to wow with unusual choices. Nick will also give advice on what to do and when to do it, with seasonal guidance on the best times to undertake basic tasks, so that reviving your garden becomes both satisfying and rewarding."--
0857834320 9780857834324
Gardening.
Photobooks.