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9780715316108 English 0715316109 Shaker style reaches the garden with this combination of real Shaker horticultural principles and inspirational projects that will bring practical and simple beauty to outdoor spaces. The Shaker Garden is a functional guide to creating a beautiful and productive garden, or adapting part of an existing design. Sound horticultural information combines with step-by-step projects that include raised beds, a birdhouse, wooden seed trays and recipes for herb-flavored honey and edible flower salads., Shows how to create simple sustainable beauty, however large or small your garden, through the Shakers' common-sense beliefs about horticulture. Offers essential advice, such as using tools and preparing the soil, while step-by-step projects show how to add Shaker touches to the garden. Focuses on growing herbs, flowers, vegetables and fruit the Shaker way, and how to harvest and use the resulting produce. Stunning photographs show how the use of natural materials, subtle colors and a certain rustic sophistication compliment the horticulture to create an ordered oasis. Book jacket., The Shakers of the American northeast were careful and caring gardeners, and each of their village communitites was self-sufficient, growing fruit, herbs, flowers and vegetables in an organic, sustainable way. In the environmenatlly aware twenty-first century we still have much to learn from the Shaker approach to gardening. The Shaker Garden provides a practical guide to creating a beautiful and productive garden, or adapting part of an existing design. Sound horticultural information combines with step by step projects, including building raised beds, creating a birdhouse, making wooden seed trays and recipes for herb flavored honey and edible flower salads. this book is an invitation to simplify, to sweep away the clutter and use natural methods and materials to create a gardein that is a rich source of food and a calm oasis for relaxation. Stephanie Donaldson has run the vegetable garden on an organic farm and also managed a large formal garden for eight years. She lives next to the sea on the south coast of England where the mild climate allows her to experiment with growing Mediterranean plants.
9780715316108 English 0715316109 Shaker style reaches the garden with this combination of real Shaker horticultural principles and inspirational projects that will bring practical and simple beauty to outdoor spaces. The Shaker Garden is a functional guide to creating a beautiful and productive garden, or adapting part of an existing design. Sound horticultural information combines with step-by-step projects that include raised beds, a birdhouse, wooden seed trays and recipes for herb-flavored honey and edible flower salads., Shows how to create simple sustainable beauty, however large or small your garden, through the Shakers' common-sense beliefs about horticulture. Offers essential advice, such as using tools and preparing the soil, while step-by-step projects show how to add Shaker touches to the garden. Focuses on growing herbs, flowers, vegetables and fruit the Shaker way, and how to harvest and use the resulting produce. Stunning photographs show how the use of natural materials, subtle colors and a certain rustic sophistication compliment the horticulture to create an ordered oasis. Book jacket., The Shakers of the American northeast were careful and caring gardeners, and each of their village communitites was self-sufficient, growing fruit, herbs, flowers and vegetables in an organic, sustainable way. In the environmenatlly aware twenty-first century we still have much to learn from the Shaker approach to gardening. The Shaker Garden provides a practical guide to creating a beautiful and productive garden, or adapting part of an existing design. Sound horticultural information combines with step by step projects, including building raised beds, creating a birdhouse, making wooden seed trays and recipes for herb flavored honey and edible flower salads. this book is an invitation to simplify, to sweep away the clutter and use natural methods and materials to create a gardein that is a rich source of food and a calm oasis for relaxation. Stephanie Donaldson has run the vegetable garden on an organic farm and also managed a large formal garden for eight years. She lives next to the sea on the south coast of England where the mild climate allows her to experiment with growing Mediterranean plants.