Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Climbers and Wall Shrubs

Sep 22, 2024 5:36 AM

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

Vertical gardening adds an extra dimension to gardens and this book will cover the ins and outs of growing climbers and wall plants to get the very best in terms of cover, cropping and flowering. It will look at flowering plants, fruit and some vegetable plants, and how to make the most of every available space in your garden.

Includes:

* creative ideas for using climbing plants and wall shrubs effectively in the garden

* quick lists of climbing plants for specific purposes, conditions or effects

* A-Z profiles of recommended plants

* practical advice on training, pruning and propagation

* illustrated step-by-step guides to essential techniques

Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive practical guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic gardening skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to successfully grow climbers and wall shrubs.

Reviews

Russell Page was one of the great English landscape architects of this century...His book The Education of a Gardener remains, in my view, the best combined guide to planting and designing a garden ever written, with inspiration for every sort of gardener, wherever they are placed. The last chapter on his own dream garden is brilliant

—— Independent

Probably the most influential 20th-century book on garden design... It is the universality of its lessons that is the great strength of his book

—— Country Life

Page has written an astonishingly beautiful book about his craft

—— Doris Lessing

Page had a great talent and a sensitivity not only to different types of flora and to different climates, but also to the architectural requirements of gardens, both large and small... Combining a painter's eye (his only formal training was in art) with a pragmatic and encyclopedic knowledge of horticulture, he produced gardens that were - are -extraordinarily lovely

—— New York Times

Russell Page, admittedly a bit of a mystic, is pretty much out there by himself with his verdant heart and green digits

—— Michael Pollan

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