Proven Winners Garden Book: Simple Plans, Picture-Perfect Plants and Expert Advice for Creating a Gorgeous Garden

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Proven Winners is one of the leading plant brands, known by home gardeners as the best source for reliable annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Their first book will provide new gardeners all the know-how they need to plan, start, create, and maintain a great home garden. The book includes concise advice on soil, irrigation, and fertilisation; design suggestions for a range of spaces; tips on planting beds, border, and containers; and design recipes that focus on colour, garden type, and seasonality. The Proven Winners Garden Book will give new gardeners the confidence they need to be great gardeners. AUTHORS: Ruth Rogers Clausen was trained at Studley Horticultural College in the UK and has been in the industry for several decades on both sides of the Atlantic. She has written several gardening books and lectures widely on a range of horticultural topics. Her work received the GWA Gold Award, and she was the horticulture editor for Country Living Gardener for more than seven years. A graduate of the New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture, Thomas Christopher worked for ten years as a horticulturist for Columbia University on an historic Hudson River estate. More recently, he has focused on writing about horticulture, publishing articles in a wide range of magazines and newspapers. 325 colour images

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"If gardening feels overwhelming to you, then The Proven Winners Garden Book is for you."--Garden Design Magazine

"If you don't want to spend hours and hours researching plants and colors and combinations, you'll find plenty of useful ideas in this book that can be quickly turned into stunning garden plans."--Garden Design Online

"Spring garden plans are starting to take shape--even if only on paper. If you're looking for ideas, container recipes, or helpful lessons on how to buy plants, prep a planting area, and have color year round, it's all here in this book!" --Garden Design

Author Bio

Ruth Rogers Clausen has received the GWA Gold Award, and she was the horticulture editor for Country Living Gardener for more than seven years.

Thomas Christopher writes about horticulture for The New York Times, The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Horticulture Magazine. He is also a columnist for House & Garden and a contributing editor at Martha Stewart Living.