Author:Alan Titchmarsh
Overcome the problems every gardener faces with helpful solutions to the problem of shady spots, and handy tips on how to make the most of these notoriously difficult areas.
Includes:
* creative design ideas for brightening up dark spaces, including north-facing walls
* directory of shade-loving plants
* care advice for shady lawns and how to deal with moss and algae
* ways to achieve year-round colour and interest
Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive 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 create and maintain your dream garden.
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
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
Page has written an astonishingly beautiful book about his craft
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 TimesRussell Page, admittedly a bit of a mystic, is pretty much out there by himself with his verdant heart and green digits