Waterstones Grow Your Own Garden
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Price: £26.00
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The perfect purchase for anyone wanting to garden on a shoestring - and grow your own garden from scratch, Grow Your Own Garden is an inspirational, accessible and practical gardening guide that will have great appeal to novices and more experienced gardeners alike. Full of beautiful colour photography and expert advice from the BBC's Carol Klein.' Buy it or drop big hints. you will not be disappointed' -- ***** Reader review' Covers pretty much everything a gardener needs to know' -- ***** Reader review' Quite inspirational' -- ***** Reader review' Wonderful book written by a very knowledgeable lady' -- ***** Reader review' Brilliant book - so informative' -- ***** Reader review***************************************************************************************** Carol Klein is passionate about propagation. Her own garden, as seen on Gardeners' World, is almost grown entirely from cuttings and seeds and in this book she's on a mission to share her joy in working with nature to cultivate the plants she loves. Too often gardeners are intimidated by propagation, assume it's not for them and go for ready-grown plants from the garden centre. But Carol, a gifted communicator with her infectious enthusiasm, boundless horticultural expertise and easy practical explanations, shows just how simple and satisfying it is to grow your own plants, not to mention sustainable and cheap. She demonstrates, step-by-step, how to divide herbaceous perennials, nurture seedlings or grow new stock from root cuttings, stems or leaves, showing how there is no mystique involved and anybody can do it.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781846078477
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Author: Mr. P. J. Morgan
Rating: 5
Review: I love this book, Carol Klein has amazing passion for plants combined with expert knowledge. She is a great teacher of all things horticultural. 5 Stars *****
Author: Mark
Rating: 2
Review: Plant propagation for amateur gardeners is a topic that would be well served by a reference work with a chapter to explain the principles, a chapter or two to introduce basic equipment, a series of chapters about techniques and then a whole load of pages of well organised information about specific plants. Unfortunately this book is not such a reference work. It is verbose where it needs to be pithy, sparse where it needs to be lush, and contains many anecdotes and opinions that are not even remotely relevant to the technical subject at hand. Here is an example of a frustrating section, chosen only because this was the page the book fell open at when I wanted to find an example for you of the blather it contains: Page 148 is titled "dividing tubers' and this section occupies all of pages 148 and 149. The only plant mentioned is dahlias, and the useful propagation information is contained in the final one paragraph which constitutes approximately one quarter of the text. The other three quarters of the text is a reference to a fictional character in a Graham Greene novel followed by some comments about historical fashions in plants. There are four photographs, only one of which could conceivably be considered useful, and even that is doubtful. The useful information could be contained in about one quarter of one page rather than the two pages actually occupied. Just after writing the above, I accidentally nudged the book off my desk onto the floor and when I picked it up it was open at page 194 -- "succulent rosettes". This is section is slightly better than the one described above, insomuch that the useful text forms about one third of the total and two of the four photographs might -- at a push -- be considered pertinent to the task at hand. Nonetheless two sides of paper have been used to present information that could have been presented more clearly in half a side. Thus my complaint against this book is amply illustrated by the first two sections picked entirely at random Overall, I found it to be an annoying work that is considerably less useful and interesting than I had hoped. If you are planning a quiz night for gardeners then this might make a good source of questions as it contains lots of trivia. The pictures are nicely done -- though they're by no means stunning works of art -- so it might also find a home as a coffee-table book for people who want to appear superficially sophisticated and learned in the arts of horticulture in order to impress visitors. Meanwhile, if you have an actual plant that you want to actually propagate, good luck. If you are interested in learning about plant propagation in general, then I suggest you approach this book with lots of time, a notebook and pen so that you can précis the genuinely useful information into a more usable form, and a highlighter pen so you can highlight the bits of text that aren't merely waffle.
