Natural planting is an exciting approach to gardening which has developed over the years into a wide-ranging theme appealing to caring gardeners around the world. Back in the 1870s the English gardener William Robinson had a vision of a world of delightful plant beauty, created by planting native and exotic hardy plants in places where they would spread and thrive.
Using examples of gardens in many climates, Penelope Hobhouse shows how this increasingly popular method of planting works and how it can be adopted for today's garden. By capturing the essence of nature's intentions and interpreting them by choosing plants appropriate to the environment, natural planting ensures that plants will succeed. Relating them to different garden habitats - woodland, shrubbery and the border, open situations such as meadow, lawns and gravel, and water and rock gardens - 'Natural Planting' explains how understanding the requirements of plants helps the gardener to grow them well in each area of the garden.
