The Impatient Gardener

by Gay Search (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.69

  As the world moves ever faster, time is becoming a commodity that people don't have enough of, and they certainly don't want to spend it on gardening or waiting for their gardens to mature. Here, Gay Search offers stylish and desirable ideas and projects that can transform a garden or part of it in a weekend or less - and still be easy to maintain once the job is done. The solutions offered in the book are underpinned by good design, practicality and proper horticulture.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.26

  In an age of instant gratification, convenience living and superficial makeovers, people don't have time to garden - let alone wait while their garden matures. This book understand all this and so offers numerous solutions to satisfy our desire for an instant transformation. Choose from the fastest growing plants or the flowers with the most colour and impact, create an instant potted jungle on your balcony, transform your drab yard with modern containers and vivid paint effects, build a romantic rustic arbour, liven up tired concrete slabs with colourful stencilling, divide your lawn with an exotic bamboo screen - these are just a few of the the book's ideas that should quickly and easily help transform an uninspiring, new or neglected garden.