Garden Rockery - How to Make, Plant and Manage Them

This vintage book contains a handbook of garden rockery, being a guide to how to make, plant, and manage it. Comprehensive and profusely illustrated, this accessible guide will appeal to modern green-fingered readers, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of gardening literature. Contents include: "e;The Garden"e;, "e;Mircocosm of Nature"e;, "e;What is Rockery?"e;, "e;What Stone to Use"e;, "e;Soil"e;, "e;Formation"e;, "e;Fern Rockery"e;, "e;Flowering Plants"e;, "e;Hedge-Banks and Old Walls"e;, and "e;The Big and the Small Rockery"e;. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening. This book was first published in 1908.