Beth Chatto's Damp Garden: Moisture-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest

Beth Chatto's Damp Garden: Moisture-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest by Wooster, Steven. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781844030453.

Beth Chattos classic volume, newly revised, updated, and magnificently illustrated with color photographs, provides expert advice on cultivating every conceivable type of damp garden, whether it has moist silt or sticky clay, whether its sunny or shady, or whether youre starting from scratch or sprucing up an existing site. Chatto explains everything about preparation, drainage, laying the first shade bed, coping with weeds, mulching, developing water and bog gardens, and large-scale garden management. Theres information about some of the hardiest plants, and some actual plans to use in designing, all with lists of flowers and shrubs arranged by season. An especially valuable A to Z of plants include perennials, bulbs, and rhizomes; a few bamboos; grasses; and ferns.