SMALL GARDEN_JOE SWIFT GARD EB
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SMALL GARDEN_JOE SWIFT GARD EB

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SMALL GARDEN_JOE SWIFT GARD EB

About this book

Create your own small garden with expert gardener Joe Swift.

Green spaces are the perfect antidote to fast city living. Learn how to create your own small garden with expert gardener Joe Swift's practical, easy-to-follow advice. From courtyards to rooftops, transform awkward and unexciting spaces with inspirational ideas and solutions.

Whatever you want your green space to look like and be used for, Joe's no-nonsense approach guides you through issues such as privacy, boundaries and shade, to growing plants in areas with little to no soil.

The wider environmental benefits are significant – helping to reduce pollution and minimise the heat island effect (a result of the hardscape in towns and cities). The plants will increase biodiversity, and many will be an important year-round resource for wildlife.

In this book, Joe covers a vast range of exciting, impactful and innovative ways to stamp your personality on your outdoor space.

He demonstrates how to use paving, boundaries, containers, furniture, water and sculpture to help structure and define, and how to give the starring role to the plants you choose to draw the seasons into our towns and cities.

Joe Swift is an author, TV presenter and garden designer. He makes regular appearances on BBC's Gardener's World and the RHS Flower Shows

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Yes, you can access SMALL GARDEN_JOE SWIFT GARD EB by Joe Swift in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architektur & Stadtplanung & Landschaftsgestaltung. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Collins
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780008461089
eBook ISBN
9780008461096
Topic
Architektur
Subtopic
Stadtplanung & Landschaftsgestaltung

searchable terms

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A
Abelia 63
Acer (maple) 114, 194
acid-loving plants 95, 112, 116, 120, 122, 194
Agapanthus 63, 201
agave 204–5
ageratum 95
aggregates 23, 24, 30–1
Ajuga 107
A. reptans 137
Akebia quinata 147
allium 177
alpines 66, 87
Amelanchier lamarckii 110
Anemone
A. blanda 177
A. x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’ 48, 128
Japanese 48, 128
Angelica archangelica 49
Angel’s trumpet 163
annuals 95, 98, 146, 155–64
Antirrhinum (snapdragon) 95, 159
apple see Malus
Arbutus unedo 62, 115
arctotis 95
armeria 87
Asarina barclayana 163
Asarum 51, 167
A. europaeum 142
ash, mountain 112
Asian greens 108
Astelia 170
aster 130
Astrantia major ‘Claret’ 129
atmosphere 13, 37–8
aubretia 87
aucuba 194
azalea 95, 194
B
bacopa 107
balconies 63–4
bamboo 42, 167
banana 167, 169, 204
basil 108
bean, dwarf French 95
beech 194
beetroot 108
Bergenia...

Table of contents

  1. copyright
  2. title page
  3. note to readers
  4. contents
  5. introduction
  6. design considerations
  7. city garden style
  8. surfaces
  9. boundaries
  10. creating privacy
  11. shade
  12. storage
  13. roof gardens and balconies
  14. front gardens
  15. water features
  16. lighting
  17. green roofs
  18. container gardening
  19. raised beds
  20. green walls
  21. trees for city gardens
  22. shrubs
  23. perennials
  24. ground cover
  25. climbers
  26. annuals
  27. exotics
  28. spring bulbs
  29. practical gardening
  30. composting, wormeries and leaf mould
  31. repotting container-grown plants
  32. protecting exotics in winter
  33. tooled up
  34. searchable terms
  35. about the publisher