Making a Rock Garden

This vintage book contains a classic guide to building and maintaining beautiful rock gardens in both small and large spaces, as well as planting and propagating of a variety of suitable plants and shrubs. "e;Making A Rock Garden"e; will be of considerable utility to those wishing to create a interesting rocketries or incorporate new plants into existing rock gardens. Contents include: "e;Selection of a Site"e;, "e;Construction of Rockeries"e;, "e;Aspect and Position"e;, "e;Materials for Rockeries"e;, "e;Principles of Rockery Building"e;, "e;General Construction"e;, "e;Rock Gardens in Miniature"e;, "e;The Simple Rockery"e;, "e;Rock-Studded Banks"e;, "e;Culture and Management"e;, "e;Suitable Soils for Alpines"e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.