Description

“A hopeful and expansive ebook for the gardener who sees a box as a canvas.” —Publishers Weekly 

James Hitchmough is definitely-considered within the layout international for his exuberant, colourful, and flower-stuffed meadows. His signature taste may also be observed in distinguished puts like London’s Olympic Park and the Botanic Lawn on the School of Oxford. The use of a definite methodology of sowing meadows from seed, he creates plant groups that mimic the dramatic great thing about herbal meadows and be offering a succession of blooms over many months—a method that may be tailored to paintings in each huge-scale public gardens and smaller residential gardens. Sowing Beauty displays you find out how to recreate Hitchmough’s masterful, romantic taste. You’ll be able to will learn to layout and sow seed mixes that come with a variety of crops, each local and unique, and find out how to deal with the sown areas through the years. Colour pictures display now not handiest the beautiful completed gardens, but in addition the entire steps alongside the best way.