How to Create an Eco Garden: The practical guide to greener, planet-friendly gardening. Step-by-step techniques, a directory of over 80 plants and over 500 photographs and illustrations

by John Walker

Working in harmony with nature, eco gardeners can create attractive and resilient gardens that reduce our 'carbon footprint', while nurturing vibrant, biologically rich growing spaces.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published November 16, 2011

About the author

John Walker is a British award-winning gardening and environmental author, writer, blogger and publisher with 40 years’ experience in practical gardening, teaching and the garden media. He grew up in the countryside, caught the gardening bug while still at school, and trained at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Cambridge University Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he was awarded the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. He is also a qualified teacher. John was features/deputy editor of Garden Answers magazine and contributing editor of Kitchen Garden.

John writes about organic, earth-friendly gardening for national newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and the Royal Horticultural Society’s journal The Garden. His recent book How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Greener, Planet-friendly Gardening was shortlisted for the 2012 Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year. He also wrote The Bed and Border Planner and Weeds: An Organic, Earth-friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control, edited A Gardeners’ Guide to Annuals, and contributed to the Garden Organic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. John has won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award three times, and has been shortlisted for Gardening Journalist of the Year three times.

John is slowly making a new earth- and climate-friendly garden from a once bracken-riddled hillside at his edge-of- woodland home in Snowdonia, North Wales.

Reviews

[Julio R. Ra]

Excellent book with ideas for creating a (practically) sustainable garden. Great ideas and projects.

[Ruric Amhari]

Excellent practical guide to eco & wildlife gardening with lots of photos and illustratiions. "Greenprints" show how to turn what you already have into an ecofriendly garden. Sections on soil care, havesting sunshine & water, and growing fruit & veg. Great sections on ways to boost biodiversity & how to tackle sustainable landscaping. Also some useful lists of ecofriendly plants.