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From an internationally famous writer on horticulture comes the bible on cultivating small gardens. This reference tackles all the problems faced by those whose big ideas keep colliding with the reality of limited space. It provides a master class on design, hard landscaping, choosing essential plants, growing fruits and vegetables, combating pests and diseases, and other common difficulties. Work with a new garden or transform an existing one; learn fresh techniques for improving and fertilizing the soil; plant with a "garden theme"; and use the illustrated directory to choose the best trees, shrubs, and flowers-all to create your own miniature Eden.

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Graham Rice trained at Kew and is an award winning horticultural author. He writes regularly in BBC Gardeners' World magazine and Garden Illustrated, and is Gardening Correspondant for the Evening Standard. He has written many books and has won awards for his writing on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a member of a number of Royal Horticultural Society committees and divides his time between Northamptonshire and Pennsylvania. His previous books include 'The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores' (David & Charles), 'Hellebores' (Cassell Illustrated), 'Sweet Peas' (Batsford), 'The Complete Book of Perennials' (Readers Digest), and 'Garden Flowers from Seed' with Christopher Lloyd (Frances Lincoln).
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Kew-trained Rice packs a lot of knowledge into this informative and slickly packaged guide for those who garden on a small scale either by choice or necessity. While Rice covers basic gardening principles—from mulching to tackling the vine weevil, the horticultural world’s bete noir—he also offers delightful suggestions for water features sure to transform even the smallest landlocked backyards into urban oases. The guide would have benefited from the assiduous eye of a copyeditor throughout ("this innovative little garden, mulched with recycled glass beads, will need any weeds removing by hand"), but the crisp, instructive photographs by Rice’s wife, judywhite, throughout easily offset this minor irritant. More problematic—for organic gardeners anyway—is Rice’s apparent reliance upon pesticides, even as he wisely preaches caution in their use ("Do not inhale vapours when spraying. A surgical mask is useful protection"). Rice is a judge for the famed Chelsea Flower Show, and this is evident in his choice of vivid color schemes for both blossoms and foliage. Interestingly, he is also a great fan of dwarf fruit trees and potagers for diminutive garden spaces, and he offers a smorgasbord of ideas for maximizing food-growing space. Most refreshing about this fun-to-read idea book is the playfulness evident in Rice’s garden plots and his prose alike. The English master gardener suggests, for example, that gardeners who work from home can use "an umbrella to provide necessary shade for the laptop screen...and when you get a business call on your mobile...you can say: ‘I’m at the office’—and be smelling the roses."
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  • PublisherCassell
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1844035093
  • ISBN 13 9781844035090
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages128
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