Created by Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, Sissinghurst represents romatic gardening at its most successful. It is one of the most visited garden in Britain. This book relates the garden's outstanding features to the distinctive styles of Sir Harold and Vita, and examines the design, de[...]
A practical guide to the expert planning, planting and maintenance of garden borders. There are schemes to inspire every gardener, from planted double borders to modest plantings for a bed of annuals and a narrow town garden.[...]
Gardening expert Tony Lord unravels the elements behind the garden at Sissinghurst created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. Different elements of the garden are captured in photographs and captions giving detailed information about the planting plans and techniques.[...]
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-- Garden Design "A comprehensive, easy-to-use guide on how to mix and match for successful plant harmony." All gardeners have favorite plants, but they often get stumped when it comes to knowing which plants to put beside those favor[...]
RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations is the essential reference book for anyone wanting to combine plants according to shape, colour, texture, or form. This visionary planting guide features an A-Z of more than 1,000 great garden plants. Each plant is photographed in glorious partnership with o[...]
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to numerical methods and analysis of stochastic processes, random fields and stochastic differential equations, and offers graduate students and researchers powerful tools for understanding uncertainty quantification for risk analysis. Coverage includes t[...]
Lord Antony Dewhurst is 'a splendid fellow - a fine sportsman, a loyal gentleman'. The young gallant is also Percy's close friend and a lieutenant in the League. The year is 1793 and in Nantes, France, the hunting of aristocrats goes on. And over in England, the enemy has kidnapped Lord Tony's wife,[...]