Cantitate/Preț
Produs

An Orchard Odyssey: Finding and growing tree fruit in your garden, community and beyond

Autor Naomi Slade
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 sep 2016
Inspiring and practical, this is a lovely resource for anyone looking to grow fruit trees or start an orchard, whether in your garden or as a community project.For centuries, orchards have been a compelling and important part of our landscape. The sight of a fruit tree, blushing in blossom in the spring, and then laden with fresh fruit in the summer and autumn, can be truly enchanting, inspiring folklore and art. Not only do orchards provide bountiful fruit for families and communities, they are also attractive to pollinators such as bees, and make a wonderful habitat for birds.There are many ways of incorporating orchard living into your lifestyle, no matter how busy or short of space you are. Written by esteemed horticulturalist Naomi Slade, this gloriously illustrated resource illuminates the possibilities and enables you to make it a reality - whether you have a few fruit trees already or have always wanted an orchard of your own.An Orchard Odyssey shows you how to plant and care for your trees and suggests fruit trees suitable for different spaces. It also covers the benefits of orchard for conservation and biodiversity, orchard heritage, and the role of fruit trees in garden and landscape design. The guide promotes the 'five trees' principle of orchards, and encourages the reader to embrace the orchards in a way that is personal to them. Packed with practical ideas and inspiration, let this delightful book encourage you to re-engage with tree fruit in new ways: look at it the right way and everyone can have an orchard.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 17884 lei

Preț vechi: 22317 lei
-20%

Puncte Express: 268

Preț estimativ în valută:
3426 3711$ 2938£

Carte indisponibilă temporar

Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780857843265
ISBN-10: 0857843265
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Beautifully designed with colour photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 205 x 255 x 20 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Green Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides an excellent overview of orchard-gardening, from orchard design and choosing what trees to grow, to picking and enjoying the fruit, community orchards and an outline of their environmental benefits.

Notă biografică

Naomi Slade is a freelance gardening journalist and author who writes for The Telegraph, RHS The Garden and Country Living, among others. Her love of orchards started in her family orchard in Wales, where she has over 85 different named-variety apple trees from which she still produces apples juice.

Cuprins

Foreword Introduction Part One: The orchard in the landscapeChapter 1: From wilderness to cultivation Chapter 2: An orchard tapestry Chapter 3: Conservation and biodiversity Chapter 4: Orchards in the community Part Two: An orchard of your ownChapter 5: Creative orchard design Chapter 6: Fruit trees for every space Chapter 7: Tree planting and care Chapter 8: Enjoying the harvest Resources Index

Recenzii

For over 30 years I have grown ornamentals with never a thought for planting fruit trees, until now. Naomi combines a dream of yore with a challenge for the future. Count me in.
Good to see both home growing and commercial considerations covered. Well done!
This delightful book takes us on a sensual stroll through the orchard landscape, conveying both the romance and the practicalities of growing fruit trees.
From scrumping, hedgerow fruits and King Henry VIII to the random seedling cider orchards of New America, this is a major contribution to pomology, offering education, history and entertainment.
Naomi Slade offers fresh thoughts on growing fruit in the smaller gardens of many modern grow your own gardeners and suggests that the way forward may be for community orchards. She provides planting advice, cultivation and maintenance techniques, and then launches into ways to use and preserve the fruits of your fruit-growing.
A horticultural fairytale, it also provides a practical roadmap to getting started - even in the increasingly tiny modern garden.