Havearbejde: naturhaver

Grow your own beautiful multilayered food forest in your own backyard. Pippa Chapman is an RHS trained gardener who designs, plants and maintains abundant, biodiverse, edible and beautiful forest gardens. In The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden, she shares her practical tips for realistically transforming your own plot, whatever its size, and with limited time, money and resources. A forest garden doesn't have to be big; you can grow a productive edible paradise in pots and containers too. Pippa explains how to create multiple layers on a small-scale to maximize your growing area, using polycultures and guilds for healthy, low-maintenance food. She shares how to use perennials for structure, year-round food, and incorporate flowers for beauty, wildlife and the kitchen. Chapters on permaculture design and forest gardening give practical advice: How to plan and plant your own garden, with guilds and plant profiles to give real-life examples to help you get started. Useful tips on propagation and seed saving to help keep plant costs low. A handy chapter on the soil-food web to help you understand your own soil and how to keep it healthy.

Includes an illustrated step-by-step design process as well as practical horticultural advice for beginner and experienced gardeners alike. Sample planting plans for a variety of styles and situations, including details of how to create shelter belts to protect more vulnerable planting. How to make your coastal garden sustainable and wildlife-friendly, with a detailed look at the use of native planting and the types of bird and invertebrate life that supports.

Landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with low-maintenance, eco-friendly meadows. This award-winning, how-to book on growing your own wildflowers and native grasses is also about sustainability, regeneration, and beauty. In a world where lawns have wreaked havoc on our natural ecosystems, meadows offer a compelling solution.