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Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden

Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden

by Kate Frey
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Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
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Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden

Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden

by Kate Frey

Overview

“This luscious, photo-filled guide will inspire you with one hundred easy-to-implement tips.” —Garden & Gun​

Gardening doesn’t have to be difficult, and expert gardener Kate Frey makes it easier than ever. Ground Rules distills the vital lessons of gardening into 100 simple rules that will yield a gorgeous, healthy, and thriving home garden. In the photo-rich pages you’ll discover tips on garden design, care and maintenance, healthy soil, and the best ways to water. You’ll also learn how to create a garden that encourages birds and butterflies, how to choose healthy plants at the garden center, how and when to re-pot a container, and much more. With bite-size chunks of expert information and inspiring ideas, Ground Rules is your new go-to resource.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781604698787
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2018
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,098,256
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Kate Frey is a consultant, educator designer, and freelance writer specializing in sustainable gardens and small farms that encourage biodiversity. She is a frequent and popular speaker for master gardener programs, garden clubs, garden shows and horticultural groups. Visit her website at freygardens.com.

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Introduction
Some of us are born with a talent for gardening; others come to gardening later in life. Whether you’re experienced or a novice, there is much to learn in order to be able to create and maintain a successful garden. This book contains 100 essential “rules” for you to discover and use. It’s my hope they will steer you toward success at every step and help you avoid mistakes.

Successful gardens are healthy, thriving places that lift us up and create joy. They are places where practicality and aesthetics are wedded. A garden must work well within its local conditions and the framework of your life. Gardens form an important link with nature and the changing seasons—the cycle of life. Many studies have shown time spent in nature benefits us by lowering stress levels and making us feel better emotionally. A garden that focuses on plants rather than hardscape like pools, decks, and patios can be an extension of nature.

Gardens give us the satisfaction of creating and tending a special place with our own hands. They are places where we both give and receive. Imagine sweet fragrances wafting, soft leaves rustling in the breeze, shade on a hot afternoon, and an ever-changing array of flowers embroidering the yard. Imagine too the joyful songs and forms of bright yellow goldfinches against the clear blue sky, a velvet-upholstered bumblebee on a purple salvia, butterflies like snips of tapestry, and hummingbird duels over crimson blooms—all elements of life you have enabled. Gardens can be your own personal paradise.

This book is divided into six complementary sections that take you from the very first planning stages, through the joy that plants bring, soil and its important underground processes, how to be wise with water, how to be a good garden parent, ways to invite wildlife into your garden, and finally to creating a garden of earthly delights. Taken as a whole, it offers a system of practices and design considerations that address every aspect of gardening.

This is a distillation of what I have learned through my many years of gardening and designing gardens professionally in the United States and around the world. It is an effort to engage everyone with the many pleasures gardening offers. I love the subject more and more each day, and I hope you will too.

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