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Ramblers scramblers & twiners : high-performance climbing plants & wall shrubs Part 1 Planning and planting: challenges and opportunities; space illusion and plants; walls fences screens; pergolas and other structures; support aids; planting and plant association; water feeding and maintenance. Part 2 The walls: walls and microclimates; the three wall zones; the north-facing wall; the south-facing wall; the east-facing wall; the west-facing wall. Part 3 The plants: self-clinging climbers; twiners; ramblers and scramblers; wall shrubs; wall base plants; annuals; the more tender plants

1999 · rif. 008271 — Newton Abbot Devon : David & Charles 1999 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0715309420; 9780715309421 LCCN: 00-362419 ; LC: SB427; Dewey: 635.9/74 ; OCLC: 42213395 ; ".The first book of climbers to provide detailed practical information with a comprehensive directory of high-performance plants. It is an indispensable book for beginner gardeners anxious to avoid the pitfalls of gardening with climbers and for everyone who enjoys the sheer exuberance and romance of rambling scrambling and twining plants." ; Contents: Part 1 Planning and planting: challenges and opportunities; space illusion and plants; walls fences screens; pergolas and other structures; support aids; planting and plant association; water feeding and maintenance. Part 2 The walls: walls and microclimates; the three wall zones; the north-facing wall; the south-facing wall; the east-facing wall; the west-facing wall. Part 3 The plants: self-clinging climbers; twiners; ramblers and scramblers; wall shrubs; wall base plants; annuals; the more tender plants.; photos include views of Wollerton Old Hall Shropshire Vale End Surrey Lower Severalls Somerset The Old Rectory Farnborough The Anchorage Kent Eastgrove Cottage Worchestershire Bourton House Gloucestershire Gamble Garden Center Palo ALto California Carrog Dyfed Wales Dinmore Manor Garden Worcestershire Keeyla Meadows San Francisco Mottisfort Abbey Hampshire Greystone Cottage Oxfordshire White Windoes Hampshire The Dingle Garden Wales Beth Chatto Garden Essex etc ; FINE/FINE Newton Abbot, Devon : David & Charles, 1999 hardcover