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Big Gardens in Small Spaces: Out-of-the-Box Advice for Boxed-in Gardeners

Big Gardens in Small Spaces: Out-of-the-Box Advice for Boxed-in Gardeners

by Martyn Cox (Author)

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    Hardcover 2010

    $3.40
Synopsis

You don't need loads of space to have an exuberant garden but you do need to make use of every square centimetre. Challenge your preconceptions and see how shady corners, rooftops, doorways, cracks in the paving and other unlikely growing spaces can turn impossibly small spaces into miraculously and productive gardens.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 220
 Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 15 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 0881929077
ISBN 13: 9780881929072

Media Reviews
This is a beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully written book that should be part of any gardener's reference collection. It includes practical information about effective gardening and permaculture.
--James A. Cox Gardens Illustrated

A list of resources and an index round out this easy-to-use, hands-on practical guide enthusiastically recommended for any gardener who is necessarily restricted in space.

Author Bio
Martyn Cox trained in horticulture at Writtle College, Essex, and has many years' practical gardening experience. He is the former features editor of BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, deputy editor of award-winning Gardenlife and was on the editorial teams at Amateur Gardening and Horticulture Week. Now freelance, he writes a weekly gardening column in The Mail on Sunday, and monthly for Saga Magazine, saga.co.uk and Grow It. Martyn contributes regularly for many other titles, including The Guardian, Grand Designs, The English Garden, Sainsbury's Magazine and The Times Magazine. He is a member of the Garden Media Guild committee and was consultant editor to Sir Terence Conran on his book Outdoors. Martyn Cox is author of RHS Wildlife Garden (Dorling Kindersley 2009), 101 Ideas for Small Gardens (BBC Books 2009), Gardening with Kids (Ryland, Peters and Small 2008) and 101 Plants for Problem Places (BBC Books 2008). He was a contributor to RHS New Encyclopaedia of Gardening Techniques (Mitchell Beazley 2008). Martyn has a small, plant-packed garden in East London, which he shares with his partner and two young children.