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Roses for the Smaller Garden Mark Mattock

Roses for the Smaller Garden By Mark Mattock

Roses for the Smaller Garden by Mark Mattock


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Summary

Focusing on roses that are suited to small gardens, this book should appeal to gardeners who value roses for their beauty, colour and scent, but who have smaller plots, a busy lifestyle or a different approach to planting. It advises on the best roses to plant and maintain successfully.

Roses for the Smaller Garden Summary

Roses for the Smaller Garden by Mark Mattock

Roses remain the all-time favourite flower and the vast majority of gardeners cultivate them in smaller gardens. This visually stunning book is the first to focus on the roses that are particularly suited to small gardens. It will appeal in particular to gardeners who value roses for their distinctive beauty, colour and scent, but who have smaller plots, a buiser lifestyle or a subtly different approach to planting. From a lifetime's experience of roses, Mark Mattock advises on the best roses to plant and maintain successfully. Exciting, essential and authoritative, this book stands alone in the advice it gives and in the allure of its beautiful photography.

Roses for the Smaller Garden Reviews

If you're not a rose lover, this may well convert you - Woman and Home; A stunning directory - Daily Telegraph

About Mark Mattock

Mark Mattock has spent a lifetime with roses. Sometime chairman of the British Rose Growers Association and director of Mattocks Roses, he is now Rose Consultant to Notcutts Nurseries. Under his directorship, Mattocks Roses was responsible for introducing many outstanding varieties.

Table of Contents

The rose story: early history; the evolution of modern roses; classification of Old and Modern rose types. Roses in the small garden: choosing roses for your garden; planning rose beds and borders; using shrub roses; using ground cover roses; using standard roses; climbing roses on walls and fences; climbing roses on pergolas, arches and pillars; rose hedges; growing roses in containers; companions for roses. A collection of roses: hybrid teas; floribundas; climbing roses; ground cover roses; shrub roses; English roses. Care of roses: soil preparation; planting roses; pruning roses; feeding roses; keeping roses healthy; roses for special purposes; colour schemes for roses; useful addresses; index of rose names.

Additional information

GOR001866857
9781903845998
1903845998
Roses for the Smaller Garden by Mark Mattock
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Quadrille Publishing Ltd
20021011
168
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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