Sowing Beauty [NC LIVE HomeGrown Ebook Collection via Biblioboard] : Designing Flowering Meadows From Seed

“A hopeful and expansive book for the gardener who sees a field as a canvas.” — Publishers Weekly James Hitchmough is well-regarded in the design world for his exuberant, colorful, and flower-filled meadows. His signature style can be seen in prominent places like London’s Olympic Park and the Botanic Garden at the University of Oxford. Using a distinct technique of sowing meadows from seed, he creates plant communities that mimic the dramatic beauty of natural meadows and offer a succession of blooms over many months—a technique that can be adapted to work in both large-scale public gardens and smaller residential gardens. Sowing Beauty shows you how to recreate Hitchmough’s masterful, romantic style. You'll will learn how to design and sow seed mixes that include a range of plants, both native and exotic, and how to maintain the sown spaces over time. Color photographs show not only the gorgeous finished gardens, but also all the steps along the way. Looking to nature for inspiration and design wisdom -- Designing naturalistic herbaceous plant communities -- Seed mix design, implementation, and initial establishment -- Establishment and management -- Case studies of sown prairies, meadows, and steppe. The Eden Project ; RHS Garden Harlow Carr Primula Meadows ; Sheffield Botanical Gardens Prairie ; RHS Garden Wisley Steppe-Prairie ; Fidelity International ; Tom Stuart-Smith's home prairie garden -- The Merton Borders at University of Oxford Botanic Garden ; Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park U.K. Native Wildflower Meadows ; Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Stitches ; RHS Garden Wisley South African Meadow ; Kaixian Eclectic Prairie-Meadow Sowing Beauty describes a revolutionary way to create beautiful, ecologically based plantings. Noted designer James Hitchmough shows how to create seed mixtures that, once sown, require only simple-low-intensity maintenance to mature into stable communities. For anyone interested in a naturalistic landscape, the techniques detailed in this groundbreaking work are the next frontier.--COVER. L’obra descriu pas a pas com dissenyar meravelloses plantacions ecològiques en prats barrejant diferents llavors i que un cop sembrades, només requeriran un baix manteniment. El conegut dissenyador, James Hitchmough, explica detalladament les tècniques per crear comunitats vegetals per a qualsevol persona interessada en un paisatge naturalista i innovador 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