Bob Flowerdew's Complete Book of Companion Gardening

by Bob Flowerdew (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $4.24

  This work on companion gardening - the technique of using the beneficial effects that plants growing in close proximity have on each other - is full of imaginative ideas and practical tips. Growing chives in the rose garden will help the roses resist blackspot and increase their perfume. Keep onions away from beans or neither will do well. Grow nasturtiums under apple trees to attract woolly aphids away from your crop. With Bob Flowerdew's help you can create a garden that thrives naturally and is interesting and colourful all year round.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.29

  Covering both theory and practice, this is a guide to the technique of using the beneficial relationships of plants growing in close proximity to one another. Some plants are useful because they shade smaller ones; some accumulate minerals that benefit others; some attract pests and can be used as sacrificial plants alongside a more valuable crop; others just seem to do better with certain plants nearby. The book includes ideas and lists of plants suitable for certain positions in the garden.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.24

  All experienced gardeners practise companion gardening, although some of them may not realize it. The concept is very simple: the conditions in which a plant grows and the plants that grow near it affect its well-being in one way or another. Some plants are useful because they shade smaller ones; some accumulate minerals that benefit others; some attract pests and can be used as sacrificial plants alongside a more valuable crop; others just seem to do better with certain plants nearby. Based on years of experience and observation, this book is a celebration of colourful and sympathetic planting which aims to encourage gardeners to pay closer attention to the care of their plants. The author also wrote The Companion Garden .