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Alpines Grey Wilson Christopher

Alpines By Grey Wilson Christopher

Alpines by Grey Wilson Christopher


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Summary

A handy practical guide to growing and caring for these beautiful and hardy plants, with ideas for constructing rock gardens and planting alpines in troughs and pots, and a full photographic directory of best cultivars to try.

Alpines Summary

Alpines by Grey Wilson Christopher

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 175 inspiring photographs. It offers expert advice on selecting and buying alpines, and how to use them in the open garden, in beds and containers. It includes a photographic directory of over 60 varieties, including Armeria, Campanula, Erigeron, Gentiana, Penstemon, Phlox, Saxifraga and Sempervivum. It offers step-by-step photographic guidance on propagating and growing alpines, with ideas for constructing rock gardens and planting alpines in troughs and pots. The beauty and hardiness of alpines makes them a popular and rewarding choice for any garden. Whether you use them to provide low-maintenance ground cover, or to bring delicate touches of light to a rock garden, alpines are an important resource. This beautiful handbook provides practical advice on choosing and caring for alpines, from selecting the right stones for your rock garden to deciding which dwarf shrubs to plant with your alpines. An plant directory illustrates 60 of the best varieties, from Achillea to Viola.With their ability to flourish in the most unlikely of flower beds and climates, alpines are plants that all gardeners should try.

About Grey Wilson Christopher

Dr Christopher Grey-Wilson is an acknowledged authority on alpine plants. Formerly a principal scientific officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, his studies and plant-hunting expeditions have taken him from the mountains of East Africa to Iran and Afghanistan. He writes regularly for gardening magazines.

Additional information

GOR008550155
9781780193663
1780193661
Alpines by Grey Wilson Christopher
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Anness Publishing
20150420
64
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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