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Informationen zum Autor Ann Treneman is a journalist and garden designer who won the RHS People's Choice award for her RHS silver-gilt-medal Wild Kitchen Garden at Chelsea Flower show 2022 (Container Category). She has a masters degree in Landscape Architecture and projects include a sensory and dementia friendly garden in London. She writes the Notebook column for The Times and was previously the paper's chief theatre critic and their award-winningparliamentary sketch writer and feature writer. Having grown up in Oregon in the US, she now livesand gardens in Bakewell, England. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK's largest gardening charity (625k members), dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Its charitable work includes providing expert advice and information, training the next generation of gardeners and promoting the ecological, aesthetic and psychological benefits of gardening in an urban environment. Klappentext "Discover the secrets to cultivating a resilient, eco-friendly garden in whatever space you have available. Greener Gardening: Containers is a treasure trove of sustainable strategies for growing vibrant, wildlife-friendly gardens within the confines of pots and raised beds" -- Vorwort The complete primer on how to make an eco-friendly container garden. Zusammenfassung 'In this enlightening guide to container gardening, Ann Treneman comprehensively dispels the notion that growing plants in a pot is in any way a second-best option...the real strength of this book is the author's enthusiasm for creating a container garden that will not only look beautiful but will also benefit nature.' Daily Mail *** This complete primer on how to make an eco-friendly container garden is dedicated to showing that everyone can have a garden, no matter the size, that can benefit the planet. RHS Greener Gardening: Containers guides you through greener choices when it comes to creating a container garden including materials, design, plant choice and maintenance. A few pots on the patio or a window box can become a dynamic mini eco system. A balcony garden can attract wildlife. With the right plants to choose from, a patio can hold an orchard. It's all a matter of 'thinking green', using recycled materials when possible, being wildlife-friendly, choosing plants that will avoid waste, and gardening sustainably. Featuring an easy-to-follow guide to green techniques as well as a helpful series of plant profiles, this is the perfect handbook for a sustainable container garden. Sections include: - Setting up your container garden - Container gardening techniques: sourcing plants, containers & contents, watering, feeding & troubleshooting - Creating containers: growing in groups, choosing a theme, how to create a map or a plan ...
