![]() ![]() The blurb says: “A reference for landscape architects and designers to help select plants that are ecologically suited to the site.” I hope that doesn’t put the wider audience off. It’s about empowering people to try to understand plants from their own understanding - the essential tools for putting together effective plantings and managing them properly. It’s about how plants 'work' and what that means in terms of longevity, spread etc. There is no-one else really doing that at the moment. It approaches plants in a very simple way, getting people to think about how they function ecologically, and survive in the natural world and how that knowledge can be applied to gardens and designed landscapes. Also, as an author, the production process of writing a book and getting it to publication is prolonged and agonising, producing an e book streamlines that process.Įnough about e books, what about the content? Noel sees this book as a primer, a bit of a consciousness raiser to hopefully, to get people looking at plants. As we do so much of our research online having the reference to hand on the same piece of kit makes a lot of sense to me. This is a reference for anyone involved in designed plantings, making or managing them, from amateur gardeners to landscape architects. I asked Noel why he had gone down the e book route: “accessibility, cost-effectiveness for buyer and author” was his reply. However, I downloaded the Kindle reading app to my iPad and then downloaded the book: easy. I don’t use a kindle and I’m a devotee of traditional books. If you’ve never bought an e book before don’t worry, neither had I. ![]() Noel Kingsbury’s new book, Plant Selection: Learning from Nature Volume 1 has just been published as an e book by MyGardenSchool. ![]() Review of Noel Kingsbury’s new eBook Plant Selection: Learning from Nature. Plant Selection: Learning from Nature Volume 1
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