Foliage Plants - Brossura

Lloyd, Christopher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0711232431 ISBN 13: 9780711232433

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln, 2011

Riassunto

A gardening guru discusses the importance of leafy plants and why they need as much attention as flowers and offers suggestions for planting shrubs, grasses, evergreen and deciduous trees, perennials and annuals. Original.

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Recensione:

Reading his books, you find a friend. Suddenly the sharpness is directed at other people, and the voluminous brain is at your service. || Few other authors can teach you as much about the practical nuts and bolts of horticulture, and above their sheer enjoyability these are invaluable referemce books, made all the more useful by being well indexed. || If you haven't read it yet, now's your chance! || Christopher Lloyd remains our most readable and entertaining gardening writer. Even those who can never aspire to his gardening heights will relish his many books. 'Foliage Plants' shows him at his opiniated best. || Full of good advice and acute observation. || Packed with advice on which foliage plants to grow for maximum effect in situations such as shady beds, against walls and in mixed borders.

L'autore:

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD OBE was among the best informed, liveliest, most worthwhile gardening writers of our time and the author of a host of classics. He spent years lovingly developing and refining his celebrated gardens at Great Dixter in Sussex. Throughout his career he was unparalleled in gardening journalism, writing for many publications from COUNTRY LIFE to the GUARDIAN. In 1979 the Royal Horticultural Society conferred on him its highest honour, the VICTORIA MEDAL OF HONOUR. He received the OBE for services to horticulture in 2000, and he died in 2006.

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• Editore: Frances Lincoln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0711232431
• ISBN 13: 9780711232433
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208