Designing with Roses
Published on 3. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7112-1714-0 (ISBN)
Description
A guide to using roses in the garden. It demonstrates how to choose, use and cultivate roses for every situation - for mixed borders and containers, flower and kitchen gardens, boundaries and elegant screens, tiny terraces and country plots. The book includes practical techniques, planting plans, and lists of the best roses for specific purposes, along with over 100 colour photographs.
Reviews / Votes
`Show me a gardener who shuns roses and they might manage without Dr Lord. Everyone else will wonder how they coped before this indispensable work appeared.' Mary Keen, in The SpectatorMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
100 colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 250 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-1714-0 (9780711217140)
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Person
Tony Lord is a highly respected writer, garden photographer and horticultural consultant. He trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and went on to become Gardens Advisor to the National Trust. He serves on several Royal Horticultural Society committees and edits their best-selling annual publication The Plant Finder. His first book, Best Borders, won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for the best general gardening book of 1994. He is also the author of the best-selling The Gardens at Sissinghurst.