Creating a beautiful outdoor space in under an hour a week. You can create a stunning garden that is quick to establish, and can be maintained in under an hour a week. It includes practical advice on using time-saving equipment and techniques for maximum effort in minimum time. It features inspiration for five easy-care gardens to suit your taste in design. It includes a useful chart of simple-to-grow plants, showing their individual cultivation requirements. It is perfect for every weekend gardener who wants to spend time enjoying their garden rather than working on it. Sections include easy garden maintenance, easy-care gardens, low-maintenance landscaping, low-maintenance plants, ideas for special features, easy-care plants and the common names of plants. If you long for a beautiful garden but have limited time to create and care for one, here is a quick and handy guide that will show you how to create the garden of your dreams with minimum effort. The book explains how careful planning, design and planting will ensure trouble-free gardening in the future and gives lots of useful information on the best equipment and techniques. There are recommendations for easy plants that require very little aftercare, as well as inspiration for five garden styles, and shortcuts to create usually time-consuming special features. With its wealth of invaluable advice, this is the ideal sourcebook for the time-pressed garden lover.

About the Author
Jackie Matthews is a highly respected horticultural expert and gardening author. Jackie has worked on dozens of gardening books covering every aspect of growing plants and garden creation, including Looking At Plants (Nelson Thornes). Her interest in the countryside led her to plant a small wood and new hedgerow on her smallholding. In her writing she combines a love of the countryside with practical experience of creating her own gardens.


Book Information
ISBN 9780754826699
Author Jackie Matthews
Format Hardback
Page Count 64
Imprint Lorenz Books
Publisher Anness Publishing
Weight(grams) 245g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 143mm * 11mm