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| My latest read from my book mountain waiting to be read |
It never does any harm to go back and remind yourself of the basics every now and then, after all it is 30 years (gulp) since I studied botany in amongst everything else at college. I saw this book recommended on another garden bloggers post (thanks Jo at Edinburgh Garden Diary) and thought I should give it a read.
"The Art and Science of Gardening Explained" is not only a reference book for anyone interested in botany, how plants grow and there for why we garden in certain ways but also a beautifully illustrated book to dip in and out of. Being able to understand how certain things affect the growth and well being of plants helps improve performance and obtains better results and this book certainly helps even a complete beginner understand these basic principles.
The book is beautifully illustrated through out with botanical prints and clear diagrams illustrating each subject in an easy to understand layout. Subjects are in well laid out chapters and with information in bite sized chunks that the gardener can then take outside into the garden and apply this knowledge to every day gardening practice. The book takes us right through from the very simplest of organisms, lichens, mosses and ferns to complex flowering plants, structure, cultural influences, pests, diseases and influential people in botany.
RHS Botany for gardeners is ideal for any one beginning to study botany or a gardener who wants some back ground knowledge and is interested in why plants are what they are and what they need to get the best out of them. It's easy to understand and straight forward text makes for great reading with out being bogged down in technical terms and science. You could dip in and out as you please or read it from cover to cover on a few winter evenings, when we can't get anywhere near the garden. Considering the amount of illustration and content I think it's well priced and a handy size too for comfortable reading. It certainly refreshed my memory of distant botany classes and all that information that was lurking in a dark, dusty corner of my brain.
Available through book shops and online book sellers, or if like me you frequent second hand book shops, you may be lucky to find one.
RHS Botany for Gardeners: The Art and Science of Gardening Explained & Explored Hardcover – 7 Oct 2013 by
£14.99
Previous book reviews:
Gardens in Time and Space by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury
The Well Tempered Garden by Christoher Lloyd
Hummelo by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury
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