John Walker

How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Greener, Planet-Friendly Gardening. Step-By-Step Techniques, a Directory of Over 80 Plants and

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Produktbeschreibung

The practical guide to greener, planet-friendly gardening. Explains how to establish a garden ecosystem, harvestand store rainwater, maximize the use of sunlight, andchoose sustainable landscaping materials.Step-by-step techniques, a directory of over 80 plants and over 500 photographs and illustrations

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Southwater Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 235mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1073g
• ISBN-13: 9781903141892
• ISBN-10: 1903141893
• Artikelnr.: 33342932

Autorenporträt

John Walker is an award-winning gardening and environmental writer with over 30 years' experience in horticulture, teaching and garden media. He trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, where he was awarded the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. He was features/deputy editor of Garden Answers magazine, and contributing editor of Kitchen Garden magazine. His long-running 'Digging Deeper' column, exploring the connections between gardening and our environment, first appeared in Organic Gardening magazine in 2006. John also writes about greener gardening for national newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Telegraph, and for the Royal Horticultural Society's journal The Garden. He wrote Weeds: An Earth-Friendly Guide to Their Identification, Use and Control and The Bed & Border Planner, and contributed to the Garden Organic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. John is currently making an 'earth-friendly' eco garden at his home in North Wales. He won the British Garden Media Guild Environmental Award in 2007 and 2010. www.earthfriendlygardener.net