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Woodland gardens are usually large, but this book is intended for woodland lovers who own small or average sized gardens. For year-round beauty, gardens based on the woodland principle cannot be bettered. It is fashionable nowadays to look for ways to improve the health of the planet, and what better way could there be than to plant trees, and the woodland plants able to associate with them. This is a really useful pocket book when visiting nurseries and garden centres, or when planning your new garden. John Freeman has many years of experience as a forester, landscape gardener and gardener, and few people could be better qualified to write this book. With sound advice and an inspirational style he offers a comprehensively descriptive list of the best small trees and shrubs, ground cover and dot plants that will produce a genuine woodland environment on a miniature scale. It is not such a long-term project as may be imagined, and the ground can be put to profitable use while the trees are becoming established. It will look good the first year, and in five years' time it will be beautiful.In ten years the woodland setting will have established itself, the garden will be uniquely self-sustaining, a joy to see, a boon to the environment, and a natural place of refuge for wildlife. |