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| Natural Gardening in Small Spaces | 
| Author: Noel Kingsbury
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 719025
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0881925640
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.96
UPC: 008819256403
EAN: 9780881925647
ASIN: 0881925640
Publication Date: February 1, 2003
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Product Description
With the growing recognition that a wisely and sensitively planted garden has a lot to offer to wildlife and the food web, more and more people are looking for ways to make their gardens environmentally friendly. However, gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. In Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, renowned plantsman Noel Kingsbury refutes that presumption, showing how even in a small garden you can create a sustainable ecosystem that looks great --- and, once established, largely looks after itself. More than 150 glorious photographs of small natural gardens provide visual confirmation of Noel Kingsbury's contention that even the smallest garden can provide a natural haven.
Book Description
Gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. In Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, renowned plantsman Noel Kingsbury refutes that presumption, showing how even in a small garden you can create a great-looking sustainable ecosystem.
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My All-Time Favorite Garden Design Book January 8, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Of the too many gardening books I've purchased, this one has transformed me. It opened my eyes to plant groupings that are natural (often native) and pleasing the year round. The illustrations are very beautiful and really do convey what Kingsbury describes. There is also plenty of useful data to help identify the plants that suit each environment. I bought this years ago and continue to return to it for both inspiration and information.
Emphasis on natural February 14, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Kingsbury writes of creating habitat for insects and hedgehogs as well as people, of selecting plants for your soil and water conditions. (He even writes on what grows best in gravel and in bogs.) This book encourages gardeners to be curious and to experiment. It is for those artists who create with plants.
Perfect for the small garden May 14, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have a townhouse and very little room to garden, but I've long desired to plan a garden that would blend in with the woods that back up to our house. This book has given me my inspiration and has cemented my decision to plan a garden that will be both natural, peaceful and beautiful. It may take a while, but I'll do it thanks to this book. Have no garden space at all? They even cover that in the "Natural Gardening without a Garden".
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