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Beth Chatto's Green Tapestry

Beth Chatto's Green Tapestry
By Beth Chatto

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Beth Chatto is one of the great 'names' of gardening. Her knowledge is rooted in over 35 year's practical experience, and she is celebrated for her use of unusual perennials, as well as her mastery of difficult growing conditions. Beth's beautiful Essex garden, created from wasteland in the mid-1960s, is a world-renowned site where an extraordinary range of plants is cultivated. In this book she explains how she has used different natural variations of the site to create widely differing habitats.  Her rules of planting are not difficult to follow: select the plants that will thrive naturally in the conditions you have in your garden, and successful cultivation should follow!

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1693532 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-04-06
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
In this instructively focused tour of Chatto's celebrated gardens in Essex, England, the author demonstrates her guiding principles. Chatto's vision of gardening is defined by two influences: plant ecology ("Plants have their preferences") and Japanese garden design ("Surprise elements are necessary; shock tactics are not"). Chatto's passion is the play of shape, line and textureAwhich color may or may not enhance. But even more important is the garden's ecology of soil, light and air. After years of tracing garden plants back to their parents in the wild, Chatto knows the preferred growing conditions for individual species of perennials. This knowledge orders her gardens into habitats and her book into chapters: "The Entrance Garden," "The Water Garden," "The Open Walks," "The Shade Garden," "The Dry Garden." Amid what seems a crowd of plants, each chapter spotlights one or two of Chatto's favorites, such as hellebores, waterside grasses, ferns, euphorbias and fritillarias. This feature, along with a plant guide at the end of the book (where useful lists of companion plants join individual plant profiles), accompanies the lush, abundant photographs. A welcome reprise of the 1989 British title, this revision will suit American gardens in zones 4-7.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
'I know of no more honest writer. She describes as she sees, imaginately but never over the top; always so as to make me murmur an echoing "this is as it is". Everything is from direct observation and experience. She is never woolly off the point. Beth Chatto knows how people think and behave and pinpoints our foibles and weaknesses with commnsense and understanding.' Christopher Lloyd

About the Author
Beth Chatto was born in Essex and has lived there ever since. She has written for most of the national press and gardening magazines, and has published several books, including The Dry Garden and The Damp Garden. Beth holds the Victoria Medal of Honour from the Royal Horticultural Society and in 1988 received an honourary doctorate from Essex University.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Idea book for experienced gardeners5
Unlike many gardening books, this book assumes a solid knowledge of gardening and has chapters on various types of gardens(shade, dry, open walks etc.). I appreciate that that many of the plants are less well-known, making the AHS Encyclopedia a good book to keep nearby while you read this. Has some great ideas for both plant and design choices.