Plants for Free: Seeds and Cuttings to Fill Your Garden

Description

Plants for Free is a budget guide to gardening - explaining how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money. With tips on where to find bargain specimens to rescuing ailing plants and propagating more of what you have for free, plus a directory of easy-to-grow plants, Sharon Amos covers it all in this guide. Plants for Free is a budget-friendly guide to creating your perfect garden, and the cost is nothing! In this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and controlling them in a garden environment. She provides a comprehensive directory of 80 plants including detailed advice on where and how to grow a wide variety of garden favourites, from snowdrops to poppies. With beautiful illustrations, Plants for Free is the perfect gift book for cultivating your garden on a budget of next-to-nothing.

Sharon Amos is a freelance journalist and author. She has written extensively on rural issues, gardens, and crafts. Her previous books include Pulbrook & Gould Flowers, Country Living: Garden Wisdom and Plants for Free. Sharon lives in Kent.