Plants for Free is a budget-friendly guide to creating your perfect garden, and the cost is nothing!
In this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and controlling them in a garden environment. She provides a comprehensive directory of 80 plants including detailed advice on where and how to grow a wide variety of garden favourites, from snowdrops to poppies.
With beautiful illustrations, Plants for Free is the perfect gift book for cultivating your garden on a budget of next-to-nothing.
Plants for Free is a budget guide to gardening explaining how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money. With tips on where to find bargain specimens to rescuing ailing plants and propagating more of what you have for free, plus a directory of easy-to-grow plants, Sharon Amos covers it all in this guide.
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Improvising Tools and Equipment |
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Creating Your Free Garden |
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A Garden Plant or a Nuisance? |
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Making a Tapestry of Plants |
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Sharon Amos has written about gardening for Saga Magazine, Country Homes & Interiors, Period Living and the Guardian, among others. She is also the author of Great Plants for Tough Places and Create a Wildlife-friendly Garden. In her own garden she relies on plants self-feeding to create new effects every year shes what you might call a laissez-faire gardener.
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