The City Gardener: Urban Oasis - Rilegato

James, Matt

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ISBN 10: 0007176287 ISBN 13: 9780007176281

Casa editrice: Collins, 2004

Riassunto

Channel 4’s The City Gardener, Matt James, is back with a new series and a new book, full of practical advice and design inspiration to turn your weed-filled wasteland into the hippest
urban playground on the block!

· Where to start – in this first section Matt gets straight down to business, providing practical answers to the question all first-time gardeners ask, ‘where on earth do I start?!’, including: how to carry out a site survey, deciding what style of garden you want and how to reflect your lifestyle in the design, where to buy plants and how to spot a good one.

· Making the skeleton – this is where we begin to get creative and learn how to plan out a garden, starting with the bare bones of the basic structure and moving onto how to hard landscape your design, turning theory into practice

· The Range of Plants – an introduction to the different plant types and how each can be used to combat an urban-specific problem like noise pollution, or create a particular effect, such as lending architectural form or providing seasonal interest

· Putting It All Together – this is where Matt shows how to bring together everything you’ve learnt about planning, hard landscaping and plants to create sensational planting layouts; specific topics covered include using height and space, colour, texture and scent, and planting styles such as prairie, formal and exotic, to create the garden you want

· Plant Directory – a problem-solving look at the best plants for particular places and conditions e.g. plants for damp spots, shady corners, specific soil types and garden aspect

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Recensione:

“fantastic”
– Amateur Gardening

“answers the questions you should be asking if you are designing a small urban oasis from scratch, from what you want to use it for to what good soil really means”
– Daily Telegraph

Praise for The City Gardener:

“May inspire the most unlikely horticulturalists to take to their barren patch of earth with grand ideas of Yorkshire-stone paving and pergolas in the claps of amorous vines.”
– The Guardian

“utterly accessible and full of sound advice for the complete beginner... you’ll soon be set to create a piece of heaven in Hackney or Hulme, without a Titchmarsh -style cardigan in sight”
– Heat ****

L'autore:

Matt James is the fresh new face of contemporary gardening and star of the hit Channel 4 series The City Gardener. His gardening career began as a teenager working on a small farm, and he then went on to study at various horticultural colleges and work at nurseries. As well as broadcaster, he is currently a professional garden designer and lecturer. Matt's greatest passion as a gardener is trees – he is a genuine, 21st-century tree hugger and has made it his mission in life to get as many cityfolk as possible planting trees again!

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• Editore: Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0007176287
• ISBN 13: 9780007176281
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224