Sowing beauty : designing flowering meadows from seed / James Hitchmough.
Material type: TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 364 pages : illustrations, plans (chiefly color) ; 27 cmISBN:- 9781604696325
- 160469632X
- SB439 .H58 2017
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB454.3.N38 H58 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800166209 |
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.
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.