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Text by Elizabeth Wilson.GREEN:PLANTSFORSMALLSPACES,INDOORSANDOUT
JasonChongueis passionateaboutpromoting“moments
ofgreen”inourhomesandcityscapes.Inthis,hissecondbook,Jason(founderofMelbournedesignstudioTheGardenSociety)
focusesonsmall-spacegardening,explaininghowtochoose,
lookafterandstyleplants,andtroubleshootwhenneeded.
($32.99,HardieGrant)THELAND
GARDENERS:
CUTFLOWERS
BritsHenriettaCourtauld
andBridgetElworthyrevived
thecuttinggardensof
WardingtonManorandnow
supplyflowerstoLondon’s
topflorists.Here’stheirstory.
($80,Thames&Hudson)TheWaterwiseAustralian
NativeGarden
With water restrictions in
force all over Australia,
this book – by two of the
country’s foremost experts
in the field – offer all the
advice you ever need to
know about waterwise
gardening. ($39.99,
Murdoch Books) #THE SCENTUAL GARDEN
The genius of this book is the photography by
Ellen Hoverkamp, who uses a flatbed scanner as
a camera, producing enigmatic flower portraits. Together
with text by garden writer Ken Druse this is a survey
of the world’s most fragrant plants, exploring how and
why they produce the scents they do. ($80, Abrams)Great Australian Gardens
Vol 2 You’ll find endless
inspiration in H&G’s
second garden book.
It journeys through
25 diverse gardens,
revealing the design
approach and planting
palettes for each one.
($59.99, Bauer Books)REMARKABLE TREES
Trees provide the oxygen we
breathe and many other vital
ingredients for life – food,
medicine, timber and spices.
This book profiles 60 of the
most extraordinary species on
Earth: the fruit-bearing, the
majestic, and the deadliest.
($49.99, Thames & Hudson)For novice green thumbs and
passionate plantspeople alike.[
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