- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Batsford Ltd (29 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713487518
- ISBN-13: 978-0713487510
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 881,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Margery Fish, the leading gardener in the 1960s, had a love for the informal style of gardening, which is particularly evident in Ground Cover Plants. It shows not only her awareness of the practical problems of an acid soil or an awkward bank, but also her sensitivity to the colour and shape of foliage. The various subjects recommended for different situations - shrubs, conifers, herbaceous plants and annuals and rock garden plants - all have positive special features of their own. The reappearance of this invaluable guide to the use of ground cover will be welcomed with great pleasure both by those already familiar with Margery Fish's works, and those who come to them for the first time. Graham Rice, the widely published gardening author and the London Evening Standard gardening correspondent, has reviewed the plant names in the original text, providing a plant-name section at the back of the book. This provides a way of identifying current plants from their old Latin names.
About the Author
The late Margery Fish was one of Britain's leading gardeners. She was a regular contributor to Amateur Gardening and The Field, and has written six other gardening books. Many thousands of visitors come to East Lambrook Manor, her Somerset garden, which is maintained very much as it was during her lifetime
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a charming and inspiring book about a subject that is easily so dreary. It must have been wonderful to spend an afternoon chatting with her about plants and gardens, successes and failures - reading this and her other books that give a sense of her personality, wit and grace. E A Bowles, Marjorie Fish and Christopher Lloyd are surely the most exciting garden writers - certainly those that I can re-read and enjoy more than anybody else.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I had hoped to get some information from this book. In fact it is no more than a self-indulgent patter about the author's ground plants, with apparently no structure. There is no index. Thumbs down to this one.
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