Coastal Gardening Books

Some suggested reading for you......

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Seaside Gardening : Revised and Explained (Hardcover)

by Theodore James and Harry Haralambou

This new, updated edition shows astonishingly beautiful spaces in a range of shoreline settings, including ocean dunes, rocky coasts, and wetlands. In addition to including 65 new photographs, this edition features a completely revamped and expanded Plant Encyclopaedic, with a new section on tropical plants and tender perennials. The book's lush photographs of seaside oases offer gardeners ideas for using colour, fashioning landscapes, creating patio and deck garden; and constructing ponds, paths and trellises. And a Practical Guide, comprising up-to-date information about sandy soil, salt water, deer, and other seaside predicaments, makes this a complete resource for anyone who gardens in this demanding environment.

Coastal Gardening(Paperback) 

by Julian Slatcher

This book explains the techniques and introduces the plants that will help you to make the most of your coastal garden. The author takes you through the processes of designing, building and maintaining a garden by the sea.

S ubjects included in the book :The Living Windbreak, Use of Colour in the Garden, Laying Patios and Paths, Positioning of Plants, a Garden Calendar and advice on over 150 plants that thrive in Coastal Gardens.

The Seaside Gardener (Paperback)

 by Richard Mortimer

A comprehensive guide for those who have to contend with wind and drought on sandy soil. It contains invaluable advice for the beginner as well as providing more than 750 plant descriptions which is excellent source material for the experienced coastal gardener, as well as for the Garden Planner.

Gardens by the Sea (Hardcover)

by Barbara Segall (Author), Jerry Harpur (Photographer) "The garden at Lamorran House in southwest Cornwall overlooks the sheltered Fal estuary ..."

This book highlights 21 of the world's most inspiring coastal gardens - among them a clifftop garden in Devon, a garden in California that appears to dissolve into the sea; blazes of colour on the shores of New Zealand, islands off the coast of Massachusetts and elegant terraces with stunning views over the Meditteranean sea.

The author profiles 150 plants that thrive in coastal gardens and explains the techniques for dealing with drought, sun, wind and salt, shingle and sandy soil, and much more.

Derek Jarman's Garden (Hardcover)

by Derek Jarman (Author), Howard Sooley (Photographer)

Derek Jarman created his own garden in the flat, bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. A passionate gardener from childhood, he combined his painter's eye, his horticultural expertise and his ecological convictions to produce a landscape which mixed the flint, shells and driftwood of Dungeness; sculptures made from stones; the area's indigenous plants; and shrubs and flowers introduced by Jarman himself. This book, the last he ever wrote, is his own record of how this garden evolved, from its beginnings in 1985 to the day of his death in 1994.