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RHS The Urban Gardener

Matt James

Garden designer lecturer and broadcaster Matt explores how to design an urban outdoor space no matter the size or location - from balconies and roof terraces to courtyards basement areas and front gardens factoring in areas for relaxation play and growing your own produce. There are 16 step-by-step projects including creating a 'living' green wall planting under mature trees and making a gravel garden and 13 case studies showing great design in action with examples from Tom Stuart-Smith Charlotte Rowe and Christopher Bradley-Hole. Award-winning photographer Marianne Majerus provides the visual inspiration.>

  • Classification : Gardens & Gardening
  • Pub Date : FEB 9, 2017
  • Imprint : Mitchell Beazley
  • Page Extent : 224
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781784722869
  • Price : INR 899
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Matt James

Matt James (Author) Matt James is a garden designer, broadcaster and senior lecturer on horticulture degree programmes at the Eden Project, Cornwall, where he also manages a respected HND in Garden & Landscape Design. Channel 4's The City Gardener introduced Matt to the gardening public; the series was later broadcast around the globe. Two series about urban garden design in the US soon followed. Matt continues to make regular appearances on television and radio, including BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. Matt's previous four books include RHS The Urban Gardener (Mitchell Beazley), and he has written widely for many publications in garden design and gardening. Matt has won awards for his design work and continues to run a design practice based in Cornwall, working in the UK and abroad. Royal Horticultural Society (Author) The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK's largest gardening charity (625k members), dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Its charitable work includes providing expert advice and information, training the next generation of gardeners and promoting the ecological, aesthetic and psychological benefits of gardening in an urban environment.

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