Bringing the Mediterranean Into Your Garden

Bringing the Mediterranean Into Your Garden

Author: O. Filippi

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781999734510

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Mediterranean garrigue landscapes are extraordinarily beautiful: alternating mounds of silver and green, textured leaves, flashes of colour and intoxicating scents combine to delight the senses and rival any cultivated garden with half the work. This book offers inspiration and expert advice on growing the plants and adopting a new more natural way of gardening. Mediterranean plants are diverse and adapted to a wide range of environments and weather conditions. They are of course ideally suited to regions which experience long periods of seasonal drought but many will also withstand periods of high rainfall and extreme cold making this book essential reading for temperate-zone gardeners seeking the Mediterranean look. Some understanding of plant ecology is essential for success and Filippi shares his expert knowledge acquired from decades of research. How a plant interacts with its environment, other plants, and other living things indicates what it needs to flourish in a garden setting.


Gardening the Mediterranean Way

Gardening the Mediterranean Way

Author: Heidi Gildemeister

Publisher:

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Coastal gardeners throughout the United States will benefit from the advice in this practical, inspirational, and illustrated book on Mediterranean gardening, which is beautiful year-round.


Mediterranean Gardening

Mediterranean Gardening

Author: Heidi Gildemeister

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780520236479

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A large-format, beautifully illustrated, complete guide to gardening in a California and Mediterraean-like climates, defined as ones in which winters are wet and summers are bone dry.


Mediterranean Landscape Design

Mediterranean Landscape Design

Author: Louisa Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500516119

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Examines landscaping in the Mediterranean region and observes how specific sites are created to compliment the beauty of the natural landscape.


The Dry Gardening Handbook

The Dry Gardening Handbook

Author: Olivier Filippi

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781999734558

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Making a garden that can withstand summer drought without irrigation is the dream of many who wish to garden in harmony with the environment. In this classic work on gardening in dry climates, first published in 2008, Olivier Filippi offers practical advice to achieve this goal based on his, and his wife Clara's, experience of working with Mediterranean-region plants for more than 30 years. The first part of the book examines the behavior of plants that face drought in their natural habitat. What is drought and how do plants manage to survive when little water is available? The second part is concerned with gardening techniques in a dry climate. How do you prepare the soil, when do you plant, and how do you maintain a dry garden? The third and longest part describes in detail no less than 500 rewarding plants that are well-adapted to dry gardens, each classified by a unique dry resistance code. The Dry Gardening Handbook is essential reading for gardeners who live in one of the world's Mediterranean climate zones and will also be of interest to gardeners in areas where drought is becoming a recurring problem.


New Gardens in Provence

New Gardens in Provence

Author: Louisa Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2006-10

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Garden-makers from all over the world are redefining Mediterranean style in harmony with international trends. From the smallest city courtyard to the largest landscape projects, these creations set off the famous Provençal landscapes in a hundred different ways.


Mediterranean Kitchen Garden

Mediterranean Kitchen Garden

Author: Mariano Bueno

Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780711230644

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Now that growing your own food is back in fashion — for health, financial, and environmental reasons — Mariano Bueno gives full practical details on how to grow vegetables alongside fruit trees and a variety of aromatic, medicinal and ornamental plants and herbs. He gives the individual requirements of common garden vegetables and popular fruit trees and provides a calendar that describes how to care for the kitchen garden through the gardening year. Explaining how to meet the particular challenges of growing edible plants in a hot, dry climate, with advice on matters such as irrigation, the book will be useful for those who live in a Mediterranean area or find themselves gardening in ever-hotter, dry climates. But it is also abundant in expertise on gardening in other climatic conditions, too, and is available here to an English-speaking audience for the first time.


Create a Mediterranean Garden

Create a Mediterranean Garden

Author: Pattie Barron

Publisher: Lorenz Books

Published: 2021-07-07

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780754835240

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"The traditional Mediterranean garden offers a garden that is beautiful through every season, whatever the climate, so that it can survive through the driest summers, and yet can cope with damp, rain and even frost. The low-water no-water method is for those who like their plants spirited and their flower beds exuberant. There are instructions for planting evergreens with robust, aromatic foliage, as well as low-maintenance shrubs that need no staking, watering, feeding or pruning. The book shows how tough love, not pampering, pays off, giving you a drought-proof and aromatic paradise in your own plot. Create a garden that is full of radiance and scent, with vivid flowers and foliage, and aromatic herbs - the perfect outdoor living room, whatever the weather"--Publisher's description.