Creating and Planting Garden Troughs

Fingerut, Joyce; Murfitt, Rex

ISBN 10: 1893443000 / ISBN 13: 9781893443006

Published by B B Mackey Books, 1999

About this Item

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

Seller Inventory # DBV.1893443000.G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating and Planting Garden Troughs
• Publisher: B B Mackey Books
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893443000
• ISBN 13: 9781893443006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Sm Quarto, PP.164, B & W Illustrations, Color Photo Plates, Probably The Best Book On Troughts

About the Author

Joyce Fingerut, President-elect of the North American Rock Garden Society and a well-known lecturer on making hypertufa garden troughs. Many of her award-winning troughs have been seen at the Philadelphia flower show and other horticultural exhibitions.

Rex Murfitt, trained in England at the famous W. E. Th. Ingwersen, Birch Farm Hardy Plant Nursery with Walter Ingwersen VMH and his son Will Ingwersen VMH, building rock gardens and traveling widely. There he learned the romance and lore of alpine plants. He later served as head gardener to Constance Spry. He eventually moved to New York and started Stonecrop Nurseries with Frank and Anne Cabot. He now lives in British Columbia where he writes and lectures on rock gardening, troughs, and alpine plants.