The Old-Fashioned Gardener

Discover the joys of gardening using traditional plants and planting methods that have withstood the test of time. Create and maintain a garden filled with hues and scents of old-fashioned plants. This book includes everything from natural horticultural methods of propagation, soil fertilization, care and cultivation, to period garden design and layout. This is an absorbing reference for all those wishing to garden the traditional way.

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The Old-Fashioned Gardener

Discover the joys of gardening using traditional plants and planting methods that have withstood the test of time. Create and maintain a garden filled with hues and scents of old-fashioned plants. This book includes everything from natural horticultural methods of propagation, soil fertilization, care and cultivation, to period garden design and layout. This is an absorbing reference for all those wishing to garden the traditional way.

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The Old-Fashioned Gardener

The Old-Fashioned Gardener

by Nigel Colborn
The Old-Fashioned Gardener

The Old-Fashioned Gardener

by Nigel Colborn

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Overview

Discover the joys of gardening using traditional plants and planting methods that have withstood the test of time. Create and maintain a garden filled with hues and scents of old-fashioned plants. This book includes everything from natural horticultural methods of propagation, soil fertilization, care and cultivation, to period garden design and layout. This is an absorbing reference for all those wishing to garden the traditional way.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781903141762
Publisher: Anness Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 11/16/2012
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nigel Colborn is a garden writer and broadcaster and was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Garden Media Guild

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Section I The Productive Garden 10

The Kitchen Garden 12

Old-Fashioned Plants 36

Storing and Preserving 46

Section II The Ornamental Garden 56

The Flower Garden 58

Old-Fashioned Plants 74

Flights of Fancy 90

Section III The Working Garden 106

Tools and Equipment 108

Propagation 124

Soil and Cultivation 140

Bibliography 156

Index 157

Acknowledgements 160

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