From cutting and grafting to fending off bugs and pests, this work explains how understanding nature will make you a better gardener. It shows you how gardening folklore, handed down through the generations can be applied to your plot.

An accessible introduction to horticulture for the amateur gardener brings together practical advice with botanical facts and gardening lore to reveal the inner workings of plants and the complex processes at work in a garden. Original.

Product Description: The Natural Gardener is based on the BBC television series "The Flying Gardener," in which Chris Beardshaw looks at a variety of plants in their different habitats, revealing how nature achieves what the gardener strives for. He demonstrates how a knowledge of local conditions and climate can aid gardeners in selecting and cultivating plants for their own settings...read more