Low-Maintenance Gardening

by Alan R. Toogood

Expert advice from a trusted name in gardening. Get the solutions to your gardening problems from the American Horticultural Society's Practical Guides! Select from this ever-growing library of titles for the best gardening advice on plants and plant care, garden design, and garden construction. Low-Maintenance Gardening Planning your garden -- analyzing your requirements and the garden site in order to choose low-maintenance options for the design; easy-care plants and features. Garden plans -- a selection of six garden designs chosen to show formal and informal styles; a family garden; an hour-a-week garden. Essential illustrated guide to preparing the site; surveying your plot; making a plan; low-maintenance gardening techniques; basic pruning; safety tips. Plant catalog -- an illustrated selection of attractive, low-maintenance plants.

Genres: Gardening

Paperback

First published January 22, 2001

Reviews

[Juli Anna]

This is a great little handbook on how to design a landscape with maintenance in mind. Excellent tips, plant swaps, and other information.

[Meadow]

Excellent ideas for a lazy, I mean "efficient", gardener.