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Zusatztext “This is a hopeful and expansive book for the gardener who can see a field as a canvas.” — Publishers Weekly “It’s impossible not to be seduced by the drama and scale of meadow and prairie planting and James Hitchmough! professor at Sheffield University in the UK! has worked on some of the most magical projects. . . . a must-read for anyone contemplating creating a similar landscape.” — Gardenista “An attractive and interesting book. . . . Sowing Beauty offers readers a hybrid of academic and popular writing related to meadow garden creation featuring plants from around the world.” — NYBG’s Plant Talk “ Sowing Beauty has all the hallmarks of a lifetime’s work; so in depth and extensive is the research! (and the photographs are especially good). . . . I would heartily recommend this book to any gardener and would expect it be on the shelf of every landscape architect.” — Gardens Illustrated “This is serious stuff for serious meadow-makers. Well done Timber Press.” — The Times “A technical guide for landscape architects and ‘ambitious home gardeners.’ Flow charts and detailed tables appear throughout! helping readers in calculating necessary seed weights and navigating irrigation questions.” — The Dirt “A mix of scientific rigour and visual extravagance. This book is a great repository of knowledge. Gratifyingly geeky! with lots of charts.” — Gardens Illustrated Informationen zum Autor James Hitchmough is an expert in the design, ecology, and management of herbaceous vegetation. His techniques have been used to make meadows and meadow-like communities at prestigious sites worldwide. Hitchmough is head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Sheffield University in the UK. Klappentext Dazzling, flowering meadows—from seed. Sowing Beauty describes a revolutionary way to create beautiful, ecologically based plantings. Noted designer James Hitchmough shows how to create seed mixtures that, once sown, require only simple, low-intensity maintenance to mature into stable communities. For anyone interested in a naturalistic landscape, the techniques detailed in this groundbreaking work are the next frontier. Vorwort Sowing Beauty is a fresh approach to creating meadow gardens from James Hitchmough, one of the world's most important and groundbreaking landscape designers. Both practical and inspirational, its combination of accessible instruction and lush photography will appeal to style-driven home gardeners and professional landscape and garden designers alike. Introduction This book is a little bit different from run of the mill gardening and planting design books. It’s about utilizing an understanding of how naturally occurring plant communities function ecologically, and then transferring this understanding to help design, establish, and manage visually dramatic herbaceous vegetation in gardens, urban parks, and other urban greenspaces that is long persistent, given simple low-intensity maintenance. What’s more, the book largely focuses on achieving this not through planting, but through sowing designed seed mixes. Planting is used as an embellishment but is not the main game. The information in this book is derived from more than 30 years of university research mostly at the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield. I describe how to produce meadows in ways that provide a substantial measure of control over the outcomes—not far, in fact, from the control you get with planting. Add on 20 years of applying these techniques to practice in a large number of prestigious projects, and you sort of have this book. The vegetation discussed in this book is sometimes a facsimile...
