Explores how to design an urban outdoor space, with sixteen projects and case studies showing example gardens.
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The Urban Gardener, garden designer and lecturer Matt James provides an approachable, practical guide to making the most of an urban garden, including:
- How to design an urban space - from balconies and roof terraces to courtyards, basement areas and window ledges.
- Ten ways to improve your environment through sustainable gardening techniques.
- Creating a space for living, with areas for dining, playing and growing your own produce.
- Planting the urban garden: using plants to define space; to introduce color, form and texture; and to provide much needed shade and privacy.
- Looking after the urban garden: planting techniques and timing, irrigation, drainage and weed control.
- Fifteen step-by-step projects, including creating a living green wall and installing a green roof.
- Directory of plants that will thrive in an urban environment.
Recenzijas
Whether aiming for a family-friendly garden, sophisticated solitude, or something in between, urban and suburban dwellers should read this book for smart, sustainable ideas for their outdoor spaces. -- Bonnie Pouette * Library Journal * The book really scores in pulling together and analysing some really great, inspirational urban gardens, and providing plenty of encouragement to those who have only the smallest of spaces in which to garden. -- Matthew Wilson * Gardens Illustrated *
Papildus informācija
Matt James, 'the city gardener', shares his planting tips in this approachable, practical guide to making the most of an urban garden.
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What Does The Urban Garden Look like? |
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Planting The Urban Garden |
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Managing The Urban Garden |
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Matt James is a garden designer, broadcaster and senior lecturer teaching on horticulture degree programmes at Duchy College, Cornwall, where he also runs an HND in Garden & Landscape Design. This follows five years teaching on the renowned Garden Design degree course at University College, Falmouth (now Falmouth University).
Channel 4's The City Gardener introduced Matt to the gardening public; the series was later broadcast around the globe. Two series about urban garden design in the US soon followed. Matt continues to make regular appearances on television and radio, including BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time and the forthcoming BBC series Great British Garden Revival.
Matt's previous three books include The City Garden Bible and he has also written widely for many publications in garden design and gardening. Matt has won awards for his design work and continues to run a design practice based in Cornwall, working in the UK and abroad.
Marianne Majerus is one of the world's finest garden photographers. Born in Luxembourg and based in London, she is a regular contributor to many national and international publications, including House & Garden, Gardens Illustrated, Country Life, the RHS's journal The Garden, The Times, the Guardian and Gardenia.
She has won numerous awards for her work, including International Garden Photographer of the Year in 2010, and was voted Garden Photographer of the Year in 2011 by the Garden Media Guild.
