Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden: Shade-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest [Hardcover]

Beth Chatto (Author), Steven Wooster (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 2002

“Superb....The reader walks with Chatto...through a remarkable garden.”—The New York Times. “Chatto teams with award-winning photographer Steven Wooster to dramatically chronicle many of the more than 500 plants she avows will flourish in some of nature’s darkest spots.”—Booklist. “[Chatto] is blessed with an unrivaled knowledge of plants.”—Chicago Sun-Times.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

For plant lovers who lament, "I can't have a garden, I have too much shade," Chatto casts welcome light on one of garden design's best-kept secrets: the wondrous diversity of shade-loving plants. Month by month, plant by plant, step-by-step, Chatto conducts a tour of the acreage of her British estate, where glades fetchingly dubbed the "Little Grassy Wood" and the "Long Shady Walk" abound with seemingly every form of tree, shrub, bulb, and perennial known to mankind. Renowned for her inspired use of plant material and innovative designs that impart beauty to the most difficult sites, Chatto is as prolific a garden writer as she is a gardener. Adding splendidly to her previous works, staples of the well-stocked garden library, Chatto teams with award-winning photographer Steven Wooster to dramatically chronicle many of the more than 500 plants she avows will flourish in some of nature's darkest spots. Interspersing details about the fauna that frolic amid the flora, Chatto describes this amazing bounty in poetic, nearly rhapsodic terms. Carol Haggas
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Review

Internationally renowned gardener and garden writer Beth Chatto treats gardeners to a horticultural history of her woodland garden in Essex. She has combined horticultural knowledge, plant ethnography and an artist's eye to produce a garden lush in growth, floriferous and fully in tune with its woodland setting. Her philosophy of only planting a plant in conditions where it would occur naturally in the wild ensures happy, healthy plants and a little research rewards tenfold as Beth shows in this engaging account of her world-acclaimed garden. Accompanied by the photographs of award winning photographer Steven Wooster, this will open gardener's eyes to what many see as a "difficult to plant" area. She gives inspiration and understanding of the wide range of woodland plants available today making the choice easier and more successful for the everyday plantsperson at the same time as providing an entertaining and informative read. - Lucy Watson

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Cassell (October 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0304363669
• ISBN-13: 978-0304363667
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,351,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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