The Scented Garden (Gardening Workbooks) - Hardcover

SQUIRE, DAVID

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841720259 ISBN 13: 9781841720258

Publisher: RYLAND, PETERS & SMALL LTD, 1988

Synopsis

Scent adds an extra dimension to the garden, bringing aromatic associations and memories, as well as pure pleasure, to the garden experience. Specially designed to help any gardener position plants perfectly for maximum enjoyment, The Scented Garden introduces 20 unique projects that make the most of a wide range of scented plants, from those which release their scent when the leaves are brushed against or crushed, to those which have a stronger scent in the early morning or in the evening.

Wherever the garden or whatever its size, The Scented Garden offers ingenious suggestions: planting a fragrant border of cutting flowers, building a honeysuckle porch, growing a sweet-smelling window box display, and lining a woodland walk with perfumed flowers. Well-illustrated and dearly explained in step-by-step instructions, The Scented Garden can help all gardeners to surround themselves with heavenly fragrance.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Bird has written many books on gardening, including Flowering Trees and Shrubs, Guide to Rock Gardening, Cottage Gardens (with Christopher Lloyd), and Organic Gardening. His contributions to the Garden Project Workbook series include Beds and Borders and Fences and Hedges.

Photographer Jonathan Buckley's work has appeared in such magazines as Horticulture, Country Life, The Garden, Gardens Illustrated, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and Gardenia (Italy).

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"The Scented Garden" and "The Kitchen Garden," by renowned gardening author Richard Bird, are the next two titles to join the successful Garden Project Workbook series published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang.

Scent adds an extra dimension to the garden, bringing pleasure, as well as aromatic associations and memories, to the garden experience. "The Scented Garden" provides twenty unique projects that allow all gardeners to make the most of a wide range of scented plants: those which release their scent when the leaves are brushed against or crushed and those which have a stronger scent in the early morning or in the evening. "The Scented Garden" is specially designed to help any gardener position plants perfectly for maximum enjoyment. With careful planning it is possible to fill your garden with sweet intoxicating aromas throughout the year.

The projects in "The Secret Garden" cover a wide range of garden situations, including: planting an aromatic border of cutting glowers, building a honeysuckle porch, growing a sweetly scented window-box display, and lining a woodland walk with scented flowers.

Well -illustrated and clearly explained in step-by-step instructions, "The Scented Garden" can help all gardeners to surround themselves with heavenly fragrances.

About this edition

• Publisher: RYLAND, PETERS & SMALL LTD
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1841720259
• ISBN 13: 9781841720258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112