The Damp Garden
The Damp Garden by Beth Chatto, published by Dent in 1993, is a comprehensive guide that explores the intricacies of gardening in damp conditions. This edition features a new introduction by Thomas Fischer, which highlights Chatto’s influential style and its relevance to American gardeners. With 336 pages, the book offers practical advice drawn from Chatto’s own experiences, detailing both her successes and failures in creating vibrant pond gardens, swamp gardens, and shady damp borders.
Readers will find a wealth of information on various types of gardens suited for moist environments, along with revisions to the plant index tailored for North American gardeners. The book includes line drawings and color photographs that showcase Chatto’s renowned gardens in Elmstead Market, Essex. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in gardening techniques and plant selection for challenging conditions.
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First published in 1982 (following the author’s other book The Dry Garden ), and here reprinted with a new introduction by Thomas Fischer describing Chatto’s style and its influence on and relevance to American gardeners, and with revisions to the plant index making it more useful for North American gardeners. Chatto is famous for her gardens in Elmstead Market, Essex. She describes her own successes and failures and gives detailed practical advice about plans, plants, and pitfalls for pond gardens, swamp gardens, shady damp borders, and meadow beds of various types and sizes. Includes line drawings and color photos of Chatto’s garden. Distributed by Timber Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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