Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden

by Kate Frey

Gardening doesn’t have to be difficult, and Kate Frey - expert gardener and designer - makes it easier than ever with her new book, Ground Rules. Frey distills the vital lessons gardening into 100 simple rules that, if followed, will yield a gorgeous, healthy, and thriving home garden. New home gardeners will discover tips on garden design, care and maintenance, healthy soil, and the best ways to water. They’ll learn how create a garden that encourages birds and butterflies, how to how to choose healthy plants at the garden center, how and when to re-pot a container, and much more. With bite-size chunks of expert information and nearly 100 inspiring photographs, Ground Rules packs a lot of value into its playful package and will be a go-to resource for gardeners everywhere.

• ISBN13: 9781604698787
• Publish Date: 30 October 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Timber Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden is a new gardening theory book by Kate Frey. It's 216 pages, available in hardback and ebook formats and due out 13th Nov, 2018.

This book does include 100 short 1-2 page tips to increase the reader's gardening enjoyment. To me, they read a lot like those page-a-day calendars. The entries are short and pithy and easy to read and digest. Most of the 'rules' are accompanied by lush garden photographs and it's the photography that really carries this book.

The photographs help illustrate the rules and I found a fair bit of inspiration. I've never been a blind follower or a really habitual planner. This often leads me to wander around my garden with irresistible impulse plant purchase in hand, trying to find a place to set it out. I've been saying for a long time that I really need more planning and structure in my garden and this book provides a number of delicious photographs of the potential benefits of careful planning.

Lovely book, bite size lessons.

Three and a half stars.