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Futureproof your garden : environmentally sustainable ways to grow more with less  Cover Image Book Book

Futureproof your garden : environmentally sustainable ways to grow more with less / Angus Stewart & Emma Stewart.

Stewart, Angus, (author.). Stewart, Emma, (author.).

Summary:

A practical guide to creating and maintaining a water-efficient garden, including a comprehensive photographic plant directory, and insights into sustainable design, in big and small spaces. Welcome to your essential guide for creating healthy, sustainable, water-wise gardens and landscapes. Futureproof your garden is a go-to resource for anyone who wants expert advice on how to use, capture and store water efficiently in times of drought or deluge. Angus and Emma help you to choose plants that not only suit your personal style, but that can adapt to changing environments. A photographic plant directory is packed with information on what to plant where, and the pair share design know-how that's adaptable to outdoor spaces of all sizes. Soil care is considered in comprehensive detail, and photo essays offer step-by-step garden DIY how-tos-including wicking beds, capillary watering, deep irrigation and ollas. Make the most of a guide to plant selection that equips you to create landscapes that are functional, beautiful and resilient, covering techniques for ornamental, habitat and edible gardens.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781911668121 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 246 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Murdoch Books, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Water-smart strategies ; comprehensive plant directory ; design tips for big and small spaces"--Cover.
Includes index.
Subject: Drought-tolerant plants.
Gardening > Environmental aspects.
Gardening.
Gardens > Design.
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable horticulture.
Xeriscaping.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Angus Stewart is well known as a former presenter on ABC's Gardening Australia. His book The Australian Native Garden (co-written with A.B. Bishop) won the 2016-17 Horticultural Media Association of Australia book award. Angus is a professional horticulturalist who has spent a lifetime working with and breeding Australian plants to make them more gardener-friendly. The author of five previous gardening books, Angus contributes to Gardening Australia magazine and has written for a host of other publications. He is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Plant Propagators' Society International Award of Honour as well as being admitted into the Horticultural Media Association's Hall of Fame. He lives in Tasmania.

Emma Stewart works with her father in the gardening business and has grown up in an environment that is passionate about plants and gardening. She lives in an apartment in Sydney's Clovelly, where she nurtures a small but flourishing backyard.


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