Fruit & veges can be beautiful as well as tasty! Discover the creative fun you can have designing your own ornamental edible garden. Diana Anthony is well-known to many NZ gardeners, through her best-selling books, The Small Edible Garden and The Edible Garden Planner. Here she describes the design and planting of the ornamental edible garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine. There is loads of information on design, construction of paths and edges, building raised beds, hedges and enclosures, frames for climbing ...
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Fruit & veges can be beautiful as well as tasty! Discover the creative fun you can have designing your own ornamental edible garden. Diana Anthony is well-known to many NZ gardeners, through her best-selling books, The Small Edible Garden and The Edible Garden Planner. Here she describes the design and planting of the ornamental edible garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine. There is loads of information on design, construction of paths and edges, building raised beds, hedges and enclosures, frames for climbing plants, espalier and pruning of fruit trees, as well as a chapter on 'no soil' or tiny space vege gardens with details of veges and dwarf fruit cultivars especially suitable for containers and smaller plantings. It includes diagrams and ground plans for ornamental edible gardens ; over 100 inspirational photographs from garden photographer Gil Hanly, showing mature ornamental vege gardens and those still in development; includes essential sustainable garden practices such as crop rotation, green manures, composting, organic management and companion planting; advice on style and design and how to achieve the look you want - whether small and stylish or large and formal; tables at the back detail heights, leaf and flower colour and seasons of veges, fruits and herbs to make planning the look of your edible garden easy!
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Add this copy of The Ornamental Edible Garden to cart. $70.20, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by University of Hawaii Press.
