The Well-Chosen Garden

by Christopher Lloyd

Overview

The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be.

'Essential reading' Country Life

'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday Times

Would your garden, small or large, in town or country, win a prize? Is there room for improvement?

Everybody has favourite plants, but the ability to put them all together to ensure a splendid show throughout the year is a skill that must be acquired. THE WELL-CHOSEN GARDEN will guide you to making the most of your available space, help you avoid untimely gaps, colour clashes and many other pitfalls of garden planning.

The perfect book for new and experienced gardeners alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474619875
Publisher:	Orion Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/10/2022
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Christopher Lloyd spent years lovingly developing and refining his celebrated gardens at Great Dixter in Sussex. Throughout his career he was unparalleled in gardening journalism, writing for many publications from COUNTRY LIFE to the GUARDIAN. In 1979 the Royal Horticultural Society conferred on him its highest honour, the VICTORIA MEDAL OF HONOUR. He received the OBE for services to horticulture in 2000 and died in 2006.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Mixed border 1

Roses need company 8

Tulips as fixtures 12

More bulbs in borders 14

Two-tier gardening 19

Weavers and edge breakers 21

Following through 27

Contrasts of colour and form 34

Colour harmonies 39

Foliage contrasts and effects 46

Lighting 52

Around-the-clock duties 55

Bold is beautiful 59

Infillers 63

Girth control 66

Grasses for ornament 70

Conifers without gnomery 75

Are your heathers really necessary? 79

Making use of shade 81

Dark, dry and rooty 87

Fitting in ferns 90

On the tiles 95

Porch and patio 97

Plants for paving 102

Garden your gravel 105

Scents where you sit 107

Dry-wall commune 112

Raised bed 117

Taking in herbs 120

House walls 124

Climbers need not climb 129

Clematis without walls 131

Lawn features 135

Meadow gardening 139

Daffodils 146

Pond side 148

Road frontage 156

Fun with bedding 159

A-Z of plants 164

Index 229

Editorial Reviews

Lloyd writes as if he were talking, volubly and well. He is funny, encouraging, informative—SUNDAY TIMES

Essential reading—COUNTRY LIFE

The text is lucid, informative and light-hearted; beautifully and usefully illustrated—HOUSE & GARDEN

He was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times—GUARDIAN

Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in twentieth-century British gardening—THE TIMES

He was the most interesting plantsman I have ever known—Alan Titchmarsh

A gardening classic, as essential to every gardener as a sharp pair of secateurs or a good space—Carol Klein on THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN

Christopher Lloyd taught us that we don't necessarily have to do things very differently - just better, and with all our heart—SPECTATOR

British horticulture is blessed with many inspired plantsmen and elegant writers, but rarely do those qualities combine as seamlessly as in Christopher Lloyd—INDEPENDENT

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