Sowing beauty
Subtitle: designing flowering meadows from seed
By: James Hitchmough
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781604696325
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Meadows; Meadow gardening
Description: 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.--COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking to nature for inspiration and design wisdom; title: Designing naturalistic herbaceous plant communities; title: Seed mix design, implementation, and initial establishment; title: Establishment and management; title: Case studies of sown prairies, meadows, and steppe. The Eden Project ; RHS Garden Harlow Carr Primula Meadows ; Sheffield Botanical Gardens Prairie ; RHS Garden Wisley Steppe-Prairie ; Fidelity International ; Tom Stuart-Smith's home prairie garden; title: The Merton Borders at University of Oxford Botanic Garden ; Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park U.K. Native Wildflower Meadows ; Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Stitches ; RHS Garden Wisley South African Meadow ; Kaixian Eclectic Prairie-Meadow.