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From herbaceous perennials and bulbs to trees, shrubs and aromatic plants, the latest in the Greenfingers Guides series is an invaluable handbook on all aspects of creating a pleasantly fragrant garden.
With easy-to-follow information, this book helps you choose which fragrant plants best suit you and your gardening situation. Each plant listed is categorised according to its flowering season and eventual height, with useful, practical cultivation advice that encourages gardeners to grow with enjoyment, creativity and confidence.
Novices and experienced gardeners alike will find this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide ideal for creating a fragrant garden throughout the year.
For more information on Lucy Summers visit her blog: www.lovelucysummers.com
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A successful model in the 80s, Lucy co-hosted Countdown before becoming Good Morning's home expert and presenting ITV's Homegrown gardening series. Lucy now runs a successful landscape design partnership and has staged award-winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show. She regularly contributes gardening articles to a variety of publications and was the gardening correspondent for Ideal Home magazine. She also lectures on gardening subjects.
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Those of us who are not visually impaired tend to plant for colour and design, utility or wildlife value - scent is often an afterthought, a fortunate by-product of our choices. In contrast, all of the plants in 'Fragrant Plants' have been chosen for their scents.
The book has a short introduction and then leaps right into the plants, with fragrant flowers divided by the season in which they flower. Each plant has a column headed with a photograph and containing everything you need to know to be able to grow it, including how easy it is and where the plant is best used. Many of the plants chosen have been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, meaning that they are easy to find and should grow well in most gardens.
Between 'Spring' and 'Summer' there are several pages on choosing and growing scented roses, which are a perennial favourite. And once you're past 'Winter' you'll find a section on aromatic plants - plants which don't necessarily have scented flowers but which release a scent when touched or crushed. Many of these are culinary herbs, and are marked as such; these entries are shorter and there are fewer photographs.
The back of the book covers the basics of gardening and growing plants. It reminds us that flowers with pleasant smells are aiming to attract beneficial insects (bees, butterflies, beetles and moths). The topics covered include planning and sourcing plants, caring for them, hardiness, pest and disease problems and propagation.
Four pages at the back list plants that are useful in different settings and for different things - e.g. groundcovers, full shade or with flowers in particular colours. One omission seems to be a list of plants that release their scents in the evening, a topic that would be of interest to gardeners who aren't fortunate enough to be in their garden most days.
The book has a short introduction and then leaps right into the plants, with fragrant flowers divided by the season in which they flower. Each plant has a column headed with a photograph and containing everything you need to know to be able to grow it, including how easy it is and where the plant is best used. Many of the plants chosen have been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, meaning that they are easy to find and should grow well in most gardens.
Between 'Spring' and 'Summer' there are several pages on choosing and growing scented roses, which are a perennial favourite. And once you're past 'Winter' you'll find a section on aromatic plants - plants which don't necessarily have scented flowers but which release a scent when touched or crushed. Many of these are culinary herbs, and are marked as such; these entries are shorter and there are fewer photographs.
The back of the book covers the basics of gardening and growing plants. It reminds us that flowers with pleasant smells are aiming to attract beneficial insects (bees, butterflies, beetles and moths). The topics covered include planning and sourcing plants, caring for them, hardiness, pest and disease problems and propagation.
Four pages at the back list plants that are useful in different settings and for different things - e.g. groundcovers, full shade or with flowers in particular colours. One omission seems to be a list of plants that release their scents in the evening, a topic that would be of interest to gardeners who aren't fortunate enough to be in their garden most days.
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