Beth Chatto is a highly respected plantswoman, as both designer
and plant ecologist. This book focuses on her own garden, which has many
different zones with differences in soil type, sun/shade exposure, degree of
moisture available, etc., and shows us how she has planted the areas. Her
philosophy of planting is to observe what conditions your garden has (and, like
her, you may have more than one type of area) and select plants that like those
conditions. In quest of this information, she has spent time looking up where
original species came from. Don’t think because she is planting to suit the
site that her plantings are boring; she has used many plants that are less
common. The area of England that she lives in is drier and colder than most of
Great Britain, so her conditions are more like the USA. Five stars for solid
information.
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