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Shrubs for the Milder Counties

W. Arnold-​​Forster

Shrubs for the Milder COunties coverFirst pub­lished in 1948, W. Arnold-Forster’s Shrubs for the Milder Counties is a clas­sic in its field. Based on the author’s long prac­tical exper­i­ence in his garden on a Cornish moor, it cov­ers a wide range of shrubs that can be grown in the milder and mari­time parts of Bri­tain, and reviews many hardy shrubs that can be grown suc­cess­fully in the colder counties. The writ­ing is extraordin­ar­ily fresh and valid for today’s garden­ers. This new edi­tion con­tains an Addendum of Plant Name Changes by Peter Clough.

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W. Arnold-​​Forster stud­ied at the Slade School of Art, under Tonks. He joined the Navy in the First World War, and then settled in a bleak house high above the cliff in west Corn­wall. Here he worked for the League of Nations, wrote, painted, and gardened.

Peter Clough, NDH, was a hor­ti­cul­tur­ist with vast prac­tical exper­i­ence of many west­ern seabord gar­dens. He was head gardener of Achamore Gar­dens on the Isle of Gigha; Tresco Abbey Garden and Inverewe.

  • Intro­duc­tion to the 2000 Edi­tion, by Val Arnold-​​Forster
  • A Note about the Photographs
  • Fore­word by The Rt. Hon. Lord Aberconway
  • Pre­face
  • I Oppor­tun­it­ies and Problems
  • II Wind and Shelter
  • III Plant­ing for Road­sides and Towns
  • IV A Gen­eral Plant­ing List
  • V Aca­cias
  • VI Camel­lias
  • VII Cean­othus
  • VIII Euca­lyptus
  • IX Magno­lias, by G.H. Johnstone
  • X Met­ros­ideros
  • XI Nothof­agus – South­ern Beeches
  • XII Olearias
  • XIII Prunus, Pyrus and Sorbus
  • XIV Rhodo­den­drons and Azaleas
  • XV Some Uncom­mon, Untried, or Tender Shrubs
  • XVI Addendum – Plant Name Changes, by Peter Clough
  • Index

ISBN: 0906720281
2nd edi­tion
Cased
408 pages
29 col­our pho­tos, 4 black and white pho­tos, 1 line draw­ing
216 x 138mm
30.11.00
£25.00

‘Illus­trated with archival pho­to­graphs of the author’s home at Eagle’s Nest and new col­our pho­to­graphs, this reis­sue of W. Arnold-Forster’s Shrubs for the Milder Counties is a must for all with green fin­gers and who enjoy using them, and for those who believe, as Dorothy Gurney did, that “one is nearer God’s heart in a garden than any­where else on earth”’. (West­ern Morn­ing News, 12.12.00).

‘Shrubs for the Milder Counties is for those who like to garden on “the edge”. … If Brit­ish sum­mers are to get hot­ter the book may become more pop­u­lar’. (Penelope Hob­house, ‘On My Bed­side Table’, Hortus, 73, Spring 2005).

‘the inform­a­tion and advice given on the erec­tion of wind­breaks and shel­ters is sound and worthy of note whilst the detailed plant resumés are full of use­ful tips on their ease of cul­tiv­a­tion or oth­er­wise. The addendum of plant name changes by Peter Clough brings the work up to date’ (www​.new​bookre​views​.co​.uk; The Bookplace)

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