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The Well-Chosen Garden

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What to expect

The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be.

'Essential reading' Country Life

'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday Times

Would your garden, small or large, in town or country, win a prize? Is there room for improvement?

Everybody has favourite plants, but the ability to put them all together to ensure a splendid show throughout the year is a skill that must be acquired. THE WELL-CHOSEN GARDEN will guide you to making the most of your available space, help you avoid untimely gaps, colour clashes and many other pitfalls of garden planning.

The perfect book for new and experienced gardeners alike.

Critics Review

Lloyd writes as if he were talking, volubly and well. He is funny, encouraging, informative
SUNDAY TIMES
Essential reading
COUNTRY LIFE
The text is lucid, informative and light-hearted; beautifully and usefully illustrated
HOUSE & GARDEN
He was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times
GUARDIAN
Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in twentieth-century British gardening
THE TIMES
He was the most interesting plantsman I have ever known
A gardening classic, as essential to every gardener as a sharp pair of secateurs or a good space
Christopher Lloyd taught us that we don't necessarily have to do things very differently - just better, and with all our heart
SPECTATOR
British horticulture is blessed with many inspired plantsmen and elegant writers, but rarely do those qualities combine as seamlessly as in Christopher Lloyd
INDEPENDENT
Author Christopher Lloyd
Narrator Charles Armstrong
Duration 6 hours and 31 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781474620024
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Gardening, Gardening: fruit and vegetable, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Nature therapy
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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