Vertical Gardens - Softcover

Klotz, Harriet; Clapp, Leigh

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12 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1742578799 ISBN 13: 9781742578798

Publisher: New Holland Publishers, 2017

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Vertical gardening is a fun, creative way to grow plants in urban spaces. As long as you’ve got a blank wall or bare fence that needs beautifying, you can tend edibles, annuals, even perennials with vertical garden products. Vertical gardens will turn your bare spaces into gorgeous living walls indoors and out. Create and customize your vertical garden to suit your own personal environment. Grow fresh herbs. Do you have limited space but love the idea of a lush green garden on your balcony, your rooftop or your courtyard? Vertical gardens are the perfect low-maintenance, space-saving, water-smart solution! Perfect for balcony gardens, rooftops, outdoor BBQ or dining areas, and courtyards, you can make great privacy screens in high density living environments and the leafy surrounds can create a cooling and shade-enchancing effect to unsheltered balconies and reduce head in summer. Create a vertical screen to give your garden a contemporary design edge. They function not only as privacy screens from nearby neighbors, but also increase the aesthetic appeal of your garden and add value to your home. Transform your outdoor living areas and achieve a designer look on a DIY budget. Chapters include projects perfect for high rise residental buildings, rooftop gardens, veggie and herb gardens and privacy screens. A wonderful guide book on how to turn your home into a lush urban jungle.

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About the Author:

Hattie Klotz is a British journalist who has lived in Canada for close to 20 years. She writes regularly on food, design and interesting people doing interesting things. Married and the mother to three young girls, she grew up in a beautiful house with stunning gardens, now open to the public, created by her parents in East Sussex, England. Hattie has worked for the Evening Standard (London) and the Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa) and freelanced widely for other publications. She has written a cooking show for The Food Network and worked in the performing arts in programming and promotion. She currently serves on the board of the Ottawa International Writers Festival and chairs the annual gala for the Ottawa Art Gallery. In her free time she loves to ski, ride horses, grow vegetables, cook and run.

Leigh Clapp is a professional photographer with over 20 years experience, primarily as a garden specialist photojournalist but also with interiors and travel. She delights in discovering the tiny elements to the overall essence of a subject. Inspired by the play of light, colour and form, photography is an artistic expression and passion for capturing the frames she has always seen in the world around her. Leigh’s work appears regularly in magazines, newspapers and books, both in the UK and abroad, including being gardening editor and photojournalist for Surrey Life, Kent Life, Hampshire Life and Sussex Life, photographing gardens for Period Homes and Interiors magazine, Country Life, Period Living and Gardens Illustrated; as well as being sole photographer for a number of books, including Garden Details, Feng Shui in the Garden, The New Native Garden and the Mother and Baby Book.

Review:

"The text is innovative and realistic at the same time, while the illustrations manage to be both beautiful and instructional." Mat Coward, Dec 2016 "Full of ideas and advice to help you turn bare garden spaces into living walls, including technical know-how and informative photography" Gardens Illustrated January 2017

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