Climbing Plants Specialist: The Essential Guide To Choosing, Planting, Improving and Caring For Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs (Specialist Series) - Tapa blanda

Squire, David

 
9781845371050: Climbing Plants Specialist: The Essential Guide To Choosing, Planting, Improving and Caring For Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs (Specialist Series)

Sinopsis

Climbing plants are among the most versatile plants in the garden, but they are often overlooked as gardeners are unaware of where they might be used. This book is a practical guide to choosing and using climbers. This book explains what climbers and wall shrubs are and a pictorial A - Z shows a wide range of plants and explains what they are best used for. There is practical information on growing climbers on walls, pergolas, arches, screens etc., and takes a detailed look at climbing and rambling roses. Practical information on how to grow and care for climbers is also included.

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David Squire has worked for many years as a gardening writer and editor. He has contributed to numerous gardening magazines and is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books. His books include four titles in the new Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series (Fox Chapel Publishing) plus The Scented Garden (Orion) which won the “Quill and Trowel Award” of the Garden Writers of America. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. In 2005, this collection of plants was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.

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