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| Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden | 
 enlarge | Author: Beth Chatto
Creator: Steven Wooster
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: £25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 36471
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0711214255
Dewey Decimal Number: 712
EAN: 9780711214255
ASIN: 0711214255
Publication Date: March 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden the author takes her work with ecological planting to a new level. Ecological planting essentially means establishing an environment for the plants in which they will grow well with minimum interference; or rather, to put it the other way round, it means using those plants whose native habitat most closely resembles the soil and climatic conditions of your garden. Beth Chatto has spent many years cultivating a largely dry, stony garden in Essex, the soil of which, she says, looks "just like the beach at nearby Frinton-on-Sea". Her experiences with drought-resistant planting have been recorded in The Damp Garden and The Dry Garden. The removal of a car-park gave her the opportunity to experiment on an unprecedented scale, and so the Gravel Garden was begun. Inspired by a trip to the mountains of New Zealand and an unplanned encounter with Derek Jarman's shingle garden, it is entirely unwatered, even in times of drought; its governing image being a dried-up river bed. The results, far from being arid, are of extraordinary richness. Beth Chatto's planting style is characterised by flowing forms, drifts of colour, plants growing through each other and establishing new relationships in the course of the year. The quality of attention she devotes to individual plant species and their habits, as she describes the development of the Gravel Garden, is one of the most outstanding things about this remarkable book. --Robin Davidson
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A lavishly-illustrated inspiration of a book March 29, 2001
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Beth Chatto's glorious gravel garden appears to defy the conditions in which it grows, and this is the story of how she came to make it. Crammed with detail, well-described illustrations, and full of little gems of useful information, it is an inspiration to all gardeners, especially those of us who struggle with hot, dry summers in the south of England. Plants for each season are lovingly described, with special favourites given their own mini-chapters. Tucked away at the end is a chapter about her newest, scree garden - if only there was more. Let's hope her next book is already being written - this is a garden I for one would love to know more about!
A real gardeners' book January 28, 2001
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
As always with books written by Beth Chatto, it is an engaging read and lavishly illustrated. A record of real gardening recording both triumphs and disappointments. But above all this book is about the plants. Beth Chatto is a true plants woman and in a league of her own. This book is an inspiration to us all.
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