Plants for Free - Seeds and Cuttings to Fill Your Garden

Plants for Free is a budget-friendly guide to creating your perfect garden, and the cost is nothing!
In this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and controlling them in a garden environment. She provides a comprehensive directory of 80 plants including detailed advice on where and how to grow a wide variety of garden favourites, from snowdrops to poppies.
With beautiful illustrations, Plants for Free is the perfect gift book for cultivating your garden on a budget of next-to-nothing.

About the author

Sharon Amos has written about gardening for Saga Magazine, Country Homes & Interiors, Period Living and the Guardian, among others. She is also the author of Great Plants for Tough Places and Create a Wildlife-friendly Garden. In her own garden she relies on plants self-feeding to create new effects every year – she’s what you might call a laissez-faire gardener.

Summary

In this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and controlling them in a garden environment.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Amos, Amos Sharon, Sharon Amos
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781911163916
• ISBN: 978-1-911163-91-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Sustainability, Nature / Plants / Flowers, GARDENING / Flowers / General, HOUSE & HOME / Sustainable Living, GARDENING / Greenhouses, Garden design & planning, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Allotments / Community gardens, Allotments, Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables, Gardening: flowers, Sustainable agriculture, Gardening: fruit & vegetable, Natural & wild gardening, Commercial horticulture, Horticulture, Gardening with native plants, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design, Gardening: flowers & ornamental plants