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New Wild Garden

Natural-style planting and practicalities
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The New Wild Garden by Ian Hodgson explores innovative ways to bring naturalistic planting into your garden. It guides readers through creating wildflower meadows and prairie-style plantings that support pollinators and wildlife. The book features 15 detailed projects, planting plans for diverse garden sizes, and cultivation advice for over 50 wildflower species, blending design creativity with ecological sensitivity.
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Ideal for gardeners, wildlife enthusiasts, landscape designers, and anyone interested in sustainable and natural garden design.

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New Wild Garden shows how to adapt an environmentally conscious new style to your garden, whatever its size and aspect, using easy-to-grasp techniques, planting ideas and schemes.

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The New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how to incorporate wildflowers, real meadows, and a looser prairie-style planting into gardens and wild spaces. With serious concern about the decline of pollinators and habitats, meadows are currently the focus of enormous creativity. Gardeners, wildlife lovers, professional designers, and seed manufacturers are all pushing the envelope of what can be grown, the pictorial effects that can be achieved, and the benefits that this provides for gardeners and wildlife.

This book includes 15 step-by-step projects and an essential plant list, as well as offering inspiration to gardeners and an overview of the most influential movement in garden design over recent decades.

In this book you can learn:

  • How to sow or plant a meadow to suit your space
  • Planting plans for every plot size: from a container, small patch, allotment or an acre
  • How to grow and propagate more than 50 kinds of wildflowers
  • Understand and emulate the new natural style followed by designers
  • Meadow recipes for every soil, situation, and wildlife habitat

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Homes and Gardens praises the book as "an inspirational yet accessible guide to wild planting that is low-maintenance yet enormously creative."

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711260092

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Edition: Revised Edition

Illustration: colour photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 227.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 1090g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Ian Hodgson has more than 30 years' experience as an editor and award-winning writer, author and show and plant trial judge. A former editor of The Garden magazine (published by the Royal Horticultural Society) he is currently Editor at Large for Garden News and Garden Answers magazines. After training at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew he qualified as a landscape architect. Ian lives and gardens in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. His first book with Frances Lincoln was Great Garden Design, published in association with the Society of Garden Designers. New Wild Garden won the Peter Seabrook Practical Book of the Year award at the prestigious Garden Media Guild Awards in 2016.

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