Grow Your Own Garden: How to propagate all your own plants

Hardback

Main Details

Title Grow Your Own Garden: How to propagate all your own plants
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Carol Klein
By (author) Jonathan Buckley
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 253,Width 195
Category/GenreGardening
Plants
ISBN/Barcode 9781846078477
ClassificationsDewey:635.043
Audience
General
Illustrations 250 Colour photographs

Publishing Details

Publisher Ebury Publishing
Imprint BBC Books
Publication Date 1 April 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Gardeners' World presenter and bestselling author of Grow Your Own Veg explains how to grow your own plants from seeds and cuttings 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. Covering a variety of propagation techniques with advice on how and when to do it, and with a comprehensive reference section detailing which technique to use for each plant and advice on aftercare, Grow Your Own Garden is the perfect guide for any budding or fully-fledged gardener.

Author Biography

Gardening expert, broadcaster and writer Carol Klein is familiar to all as a permanent presenter on Gardeners' World, but she is also the owner of a thriving nursery business, Glebe Cottage Plants, and she contributes to a number of publications, including Garden News, Gardens Illustrated and the Guardian. She is also the author of three other books, Grow Your Own Veg, Grow Your Own Fruit and Plant Personalities.