Plants thrive thanks to back-sparing and thrifty techniques for propagation, fertilization and transplanting, plus tips on beneficial fungi and bugs, magical mulches, edible weeds, water-wise wildflowers and native plants. Design-wise, make a spectacular entrance with a living gate, or see how easy it is to create a vertical or rooftop garden, a whimsical water garden or a stone courtyard. Home-crafted concrete troughs stuffed with succulents stand strong alongside dry-stack stone walls, and simple ideas for playhouses, gazebos and backyard benches will keep readers busy through all seasons. Sow Simple invites all gardeners, whether they have a large acreage or a tiny urban oasis, to have fun, experiment and see how wonderful it can be to spend time in the garden.
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Christina Symons is a professional freelance writer and
photographer specializing in garden, food and lifestyle topics. She has contributed to numerous publications including the Vancouver Sun, Globe & Mail, Coast Reporter, GardenWise, BC Business, Canadian Family, Style at Home, Canadian House & Home and BC Home. As the Good Taste (food and entertaining) and Home Front (décor and design)columnist for TVWeek magazine, Christina reaches over 370,000 readers per week.
John Gillespie is a professional landscape designer and horticulturalist, certified master arborist and green roof technician, with a passion for sustainable living. John offers land development and garden planning, design and installation services through his professional practice, Landwise Consultants. He regularly presents on gardening topics and writes for the Coast Reporter.
photographer specializing in garden, food and lifestyle topics. She has contributed to numerous publications including the Vancouver Sun, Globe & Mail, Coast Reporter, GardenWise, BC Business, Canadian Family, Style at Home, Canadian House & Home and BC Home. As the Good Taste (food and entertaining) and Home Front (décor and design)columnist for TVWeek magazine, Christina reaches over 370,000 readers per week.
John Gillespie is a professional landscape designer and horticulturalist, certified master arborist and green roof technician, with a passion for sustainable living. John offers land development and garden planning, design and installation services through his professional practice, Landwise Consultants. He regularly presents on gardening topics and writes for the Coast Reporter.
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If you need a book to bring back the spark of gardening, this is definitely a good one. It is filled with great and fun ideas to implement in all kinds of gardens. However, the info giving can be sparse at places. For instance, the first activity proposed is to put bulbs in old silver sugar bowls. And that's it, no explaination on how to grow the bulbs, do you do it in spring or do you force them to bloom or anything else. Later on in the book, plenty of plants are being mentionned but the zonage isn't so I had to google interesting plants I didn't know about to see if they could even grow where I live.
Otherwise it's a very fine book, easy and fast to read (considering most of the pages hold pictures or a really big margin) and it was a fun book to read. You can't always say that about gardening books.
Otherwise it's a very fine book, easy and fast to read (considering most of the pages hold pictures or a really big margin) and it was a fun book to read. You can't always say that about gardening books.
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