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Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Grow Your Own Plants: How to Garden

Autor Alan Titchmarsh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2013
Using a variety of simple propagation techniques, learn how to grow your own plants for free. In this definitive guide, Alan Titchmarsh shows how to sow seed, take leaf and root cuttings, divide shrubs, and how to promote growth in your young plants. He covers all the essentials and provides inspirational ideas for filling your garden with flowers, shrubs, trees and vegetables, all grown from scratch.

 • A-Z directory of Alan's recommended plants to propagate
 • Essential techniques for sourcing, collecting and storing seed
 • Which soils and composts to use for different plant types
 • Suggested equipment and tools
 • Comprehensive guide to layering, division and grafting
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849902229
ISBN-10: 1849902224
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
Dimensiuni: 187 x 233 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Ebury Publishing
Colecția How to Garden
Seria How to Garden


Notă biografică

Originally trained at Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ALAN TITCHMARSH is the author of over 40 books about gardening, including How to be a Gardener Book 1: Back to Basics, the fastest-selling of all time in the genre. He writes for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, and is gardening correspondent for the Daily Express and Sunday Express. A frequent broadcaster, Alan has covered The Chelsea Flower Show for the BBC for over 25 years, presents Love Your Garden for ITV, and has a weekly show on Radio 2.

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Herbaceous perennials flower each year, dying down in the winter and springing back to life the following spring. They are central features in the landscape of a garden as they appear year-after-year and must be regarded as constant features. This book gives the expert view on the vast array of flowers available. It includes: creative ideas and border planting plans * practical advice on care, maintenance and propagation; illustrated A-Z profiles of recommended plants; recommended plants for specific purposes, conditions and effects; and, step-by-step illustrations showing essential techniques. Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions guide you through the basic skills and on to the advanced techniques, providing everything you need to create beautiful flower borders in your garden.