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    Plants for Problem Places: Clay Soil [British Edition]
    Plants for Problem Places: Clay Soil [British Edition]
    Plants for Problem Places: Clay Soil [British Edition]
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    Plants for Problem Places: Clay Soil [British Edition]

    By Graham Rice

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    Got clay soil? Need advice on the best plants to grow? Award winning expert Graham Rice explains how to amend clay soil so your can enjoy a wider range of plants and recommends the best plants to grow. Graham provides descriptive selections of attractive trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, bulbs and annuals for your clay soil. The right plants can solve your clay soil problem. British Edition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraham Rice
    Release dateAug 12, 2010
    ISBN9781452461564
    Plants for Problem Places: Clay Soil [British Edition]
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    Graham Rice

    Graham Rice is one of the highest-regarded garden writers in the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Horticultural Society’s Encyclopedia of Perennials (2006), which is the largest book of its kind ever published. He is also author of more than 20 other books, including the Reader's Digest Complete Book of Perennials, Hardy Perennials (named best garden book by the British Garden Media Guild), and Discovering Annuals (finalist for a Guild Award) and The Ultimate Book of Small Gardens. He has won another Garden Media Guild award for magazine writing and another for the UK edition of his Encyclopedia of Perennials. He has earned Garden Writers Association of America awards for writing in a wide range of media, from magazine to web, including an award for his article, “Bambi, or Buzzsaw?” about the problem of deer in American gardens. In all, he has the rare distinction of winning three garden writing awards on each side of the Atlantic. A noted journalist, Graham has covered gardening topics for many major newspapers and magazines, and has written weekly as Gardening Correspondent for two top-selling British newspapers, The Observer and the London Evening Standard. He has also written for many garden magazines, including Horticulture, Garden Design and The American Gardener in the USA, and BBC Gardeners’ World magazine and The Garden (the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society) in Britain. He judges at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show. His blogs, Transatlantic Plantsman, and New Plants (for the Royal Horticultural Society) are followed avidly. Graham Rice was trained in horticulture at the prestigious Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. His marriage to American garden writer/photographer judywhite is a horticultural love story; they met while both covering the Chelsea Flower Show in 1997. Their stock photography library, GardenPhotos.com, has an inventory of over 250,000 images, their photos have been published in many major markets, and they have exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. The pair have published two gardening books together, with Rice as author and judywhite as photographer. They divide their gardening time between Pennsylvania and England.

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      Plants for Problem Places - Graham Rice

      Plants for Problem Places: CLAY SOIL

      by

      Graham Rice

      Solving the problem with plants

      *****

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      Log Tavern Press

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      Plants for Problem Places: Clay Soil

      Copyright © Graham Rice 2010

      ISBN: 978-0-9829373-1-0

      UK Edition: Version 1.0

      Cover Image ©judywhite/GardenPhotos.com

      Artwork by David Henderson

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      * * * * *

      About Graham Rice

      * Acclaimed expert on plants and gardening

      * Former gardening columnist of The Observer and of London’s Evening Standard

      * Trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London

      * Author of over twenty books, including the four for the Royal Horticultural Society

      * Writes for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Garden and Amateur Gardening and has written for BBC Gardeners World, Garden News, BBC Gardens Illustrated and magazines and publications around the world

      * Winner of six awards for writing about plants and gardens

      * Chelsea Flower Show judge

      *****

      Praise for the print edition of Plants for Problem Places

      You can give up your home and move to a better garden site, or turn your liabilities into assets. Graham Rice makes a case for the latter in this delightfully written, well-organised primer... Should lighten the spirits of those disheartened by vexing gardens. Linda Yang, New York Times

      This is a wonderful little book that is the ultimate guide to knowing what to plant… The author is a great help, often giving exact cultivars of plants that will work for your problem spot. Seems to me any book by Graham Rice is amazingly researched and written in a sprightly style that's easy to read yet wonderfully instructive. Good for beginners as well as advanced gardeners. Gardening Girl, amazon.com Customer Review

      ‘Advice is put over simply and unpretentiously.’ Garden Answers magazine

      ‘Throughout, one hears the voice of experience bringing confidence in the advice.’ The Garden magazine

      *****

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