Brilliant & Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year

by Lucy Bellamy, Jason Ingram (Photographer)

Overview

With umbels, spires, and bright button-like dots, new perennial planting is perfect for the beginner gardener: intensely beautiful, swift to establish, simple to upkeep, beloved by bees, and incredible even in tiny spaces.

This book draws on make-it-yourself, grow-it-yourself trends, and the interest in wilder, greener gardens. For a single person with only a spade, this highly practical book outlines the steps to making a garden that blooms within a matter of months; explains how to choose plants that knit happily together for sparkling displays; unlocks the secrets of new planting style for virgin gardeners; and shares tips and tricks for plants that love birds, bees, bugs, and butterflies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910258637
Publisher:	Gemini Books Group
Publication date:	06/01/2018
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lucy Bellamy designs gardens and is editor of Gardens Illustrated magazine. She has appeared on BBC television and radio and was a contestant on The Great British Bake Off in 2013.

Jason Ingram is an award-winning photographer who works on a weekly gardening column for the Observer. Jason won the Garden Media Guild Photographer of the Year Award in 2013 and 2014.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

From scratch in a year 10

The plants 22

Planting 100

Wildlife 136

Caring for your garden 150

Beyond the year 164

Resources 170

Index 172

Acknowledgements 176