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Beth Chatto's Green Tapestry: Perennial Plants for Your Garden Paperback – April 1, 1999

by Beth Chatto (Author)

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Beth Chatto is one of the great 'names' of gardening. Her knowledge is rooted in over 35 year's practical experience, and she is celebrated for her use of unusual perennials, as well as her mastery of difficult growing conditions. Beth's beautiful Essex garden, created from wasteland in the mid-1960s, is a world-renowned site where an extraordinary range of plants is cultivated. In this book she explains how she has used different natural variations of the site to create widely differing habitats. Her rules of planting are not difficult to follow: select the plants that will thrive naturally in the conditions you have in your garden, and successful cultivation should follow!

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192 pages
Language

English
Publisher

HarperCollins UK
Publication date

April 1, 1999
Dimensions

9.25 x 0.5 x 10 inches
ISBN-10

0004140648
ISBN-13

978-0004140643
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In this instructively focused tour of Chatto's celebrated gardens in Essex, England, the author demonstrates her guiding principles. Chatto's vision of gardening is defined by two influences: plant ecology ("Plants have their preferences") and Japanese garden design ("Surprise elements are necessary; shock tactics are not"). Chatto's passion is the play of shape, line and textureAwhich color may or may not enhance. But even more important is the garden's ecology of soil, light and air. After years of tracing garden plants back to their parents in the wild, Chatto knows the preferred growing conditions for individual species of perennials. This knowledge orders her gardens into habitats and her book into chapters: "The Entrance Garden," "The Water Garden," "The Open Walks," "The Shade Garden," "The Dry Garden." Amid what seems a crowd of plants, each chapter spotlights one or two of Chatto's favorites, such as hellebores, waterside grasses, ferns, euphorbias and fritillarias. This feature, along with a plant guide at the end of the book (where useful lists of companion plants join individual plant profiles), accompanies the lush, abundant photographs. A welcome reprise of the 1989 British title, this revision will suit American gardens in zones 4-7.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins UK; 2nd edition (April 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0004140648
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0004140643
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 0.5 x 10 inches

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K. Russell

ANY Chatto book is a treasure!

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018

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Next best thing to walking her gardens and learning from the gardener herself.

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Laurie A. Brown

Much more than green

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2017

Beth Chatto is a highly respected plantswoman, as both designer and plant ecologist. This book focuses on her own garden, which has many different zones with differences in soil type, sun/shade exposure, degree of moisture available, etc., and shows us how she has planted the areas. Her philosophy of planting is to observe what conditions your garden has (and, like her, you may have more than one type of area) and select plants that like those conditions. In quest of this information, she has spent time looking up where original species came from. Don’t think because she is planting to suit the site that her plantings are boring; she has used many plants that are less common. The area of England that she lives in is drier and colder than most of Great Britain, so her conditions are more like the USA. Five stars for solid information.

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David W. Pittelli

A masterful description of one woman's garden

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2005

This book has a similar philosophy and arrangement by cultural conditions as Penelope Hobhouse's Natural Planting. While Hobhouse looks to gardens around the (temperate, Western) world, this book is all based on Beth Chatto's garden. But that's enough, as these are the large and varied display gardens at her retail and commercial nursery. The gardens are set in Essex, an area of England with harsher conditions (drier year-round, with a cold winter) than most of the country, and thus more like that of much of North America. While the book doesn't have a big alphabetical plant reference in the back, Chatto does have a few pages on each of many of her favorite genera. All of Chatto's books are worth purchasing if they match your local conditions (e.g., The Damp Garden, The Dry Garden).

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Amazoncustomer

Excellent Idea book for experienced gardeners

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2001

Unlike many gardening books, this book assumes a solid knowledge of gardening and has chapters on various types of gardens(shade, dry, open walks etc.). I appreciate that that many of the plants are less well-known, making the AHS Encyclopedia a good book to keep nearby while you read this. Has some great ideas for both plant and design choices.

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Expert advice

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2021

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As you might expect, expert advice from the wonderful Beth Chatto (RIP).

Gilly

Beth Charlos Green Tapestry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2014

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Not sat and read it all yet, I have found a few tips just flicking through... Am looking forward to reading it properly.

Gaddo

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2016

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Wonderful woman and a great non-aging sourcebook.

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