Naomi Slade

An Orchard Odyssey (eBook, ePUB)

Finding and growing tree fruit in your garden, community and beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inspiring and practical, this is a lovely resource for anyone looking to grow fruit trees or start an orchard, whether in your garden or as a community project.

For centuries, orchards have been a compelling and important part of our landscape. The sight of a fruit tree, blushing in blossom in the spring, and then laden with fresh fruit in the summer and autumn, can be truly enchanting, inspiring folklore and art. Not only do orchards provide bountiful fruit for families and communities, they are also attractive to pollinators such as bees, and make a wonderful habitat for birds.

There are many ways of incorporating orchard living into your lifestyle, no matter how busy or short of space you are. Written by esteemed horticulturalist Naomi Slade, this gloriously illustrated resource illuminates the possibilities and enables you to make it a reality - whether you have a few fruit trees already or have always wanted an orchard of your own.

An Orchard Odyssey shows you how to plant and care for your trees and suggests fruit trees suitable for different spaces. It also covers the benefits of orchard for conservation and biodiversity, orchard heritage, and the role of fruit trees in garden and landscape design. The guide promotes the 'five trees' principle of orchards, and encourages the reader to embrace the orchards in a way that is personal to them.

Packed with practical ideas and inspiration, let this delightful book encourage you to re-engage with tree fruit in new ways: look at it the right way and everyone can have an orchard.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857843272
• Artikelnr.: 46590602

Autorenporträt

Naomi Slade is an established horticultural journalist, who writes for The Telegraph, Kitchen Garden Magazine, Berks & Bucks Life and many others. She gives talks on gardening and is a regular radio guest, including on BBC Radio 4.

With a degree in Biology and a lifelong interest in gardening, botany and the environment Naomi has, in recent years, taken over the restoration and management of the orchards at her childhood home in Wales. From there she has set up a successful micro-enterprise producing and selling boutique, single variety apple juice in the local community and beyond.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction Part One: The orchard in the landscape Chapter
1: From wilderness to cultivation Chapter 2: An orchard tapestry Chapter 3:
Conservation and biodiversity Chapter 4: Orchards in the community Part
Two: An orchard of your own Chapter 5: Creative orchard design Chapter 6:
Fruit trees for every space Chapter 7: Tree planting and care Chapter 8:
Enjoying the harvest Resources Index