Sowing Beauty is a fresh approach to creating meadow gardens from James Hitchmough, one of the world's most important and groundbreaking landscape designers. Both practical and inspirational, its combination of accessible instruction and lush photography will appeal to style-driven home gardeners and professional landscape and garden designers alike.
James Hitchmough is an expert in the design, ecology, and management of herbaceous vegetation. His techniques have been used to make meadows and meadow-like communities at prestigious sites worldwide. Hitchmough is head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Sheffield University in the UK.
"This is a hopeful and expansive book for the gardener who can see
a field as a canvas." --Publishers Weekly "It's impossible not to
be seduced by the drama and scale of meadow and prairie planting
and James Hitchmough, professor at Sheffield University in the UK,
has worked on some of the most magical projects. . . . a must-read
for anyone contemplating creating a similar landscape."
--Gardenista "An attractive and interesting book. . . . Sowing
Beauty offers readers a hybrid of academic and popular writing
related to meadow garden creation featuring plants from around the
world." --NYBG's Plant Talk "Sowing Beauty has all the hallmarks of
a lifetime's work; so in depth and extensive is the research, (and
the photographs are especially good). . . . I would heartily
recommend this book to any gardener and would expect it be on the
shelf of every landscape architect." --Gardens Illustrated "This is
serious stuff for serious meadow-makers. Well done Timber Press."
--The Times "A technical guide for landscape architects and
'ambitious home gardeners.' Flow charts and detailed tables appear
throughout, helping readers in calculating necessary seed weights
and navigating irrigation questions." --The Dirt "A mix of
scientific rigour and visual extravagance. This book is a great
repository of knowledge. Gratifyingly geeky, with lots of charts."
--Gardens Illustrated
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