Product Description

A vivid picture of a garden in the making and a practical guide for all gardeners, whether they have a pond or a stream, or just a small area od damp ground.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115203 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Beth Chatto runs her own Garden and Nursery for Unusual Plants at Elmstead Market near Colchester. Winner of ten Gold Medals at Chelsea, she also holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour and an honorary doctorate from Essex University for her services to horticulture. She is the author of a host of gardening classics and is also co-author of Dear Friend and Gardener, written with her long-standing friend and fellow gardener, Christopher Lloyd.

Customer Reviews

Excellent. For Wet Gardens Everywhere
With a garden of heavy wet clay in Scotland, this is the only book I've found that focuses on our specific needs. Part biography of her own damp garden, part invaluable plant list, this book is full of ideas and inspiration. I love it. A classic. If you want ideas of what to do in your own patch of wet ground, buy this book.

The full experience
Almost two decades in print, the follow up to the dry garden, amazingly, goes even further to provide the full experience...

Chatto shares all generously: planting plans, combinations, intimate insights... She is at ease when it rains as much as when it doesn't, or perhaps this is just wishful thinking...

Chatto's gardens have been providing the testing ground for her planting ideas for many years. Locally, she fought damp with gravel successfully. This is pure ornament - not a scientific ecological experiment! However, her methods serve us all well - regardless of our geographical identities....