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The Natural Gardener Book
The Natural Gardener Book: advice and inspiration for wildening your garden.
Part aspirational and part practical, The Natural Gardener explores what constitutes a ‘natural’ garden, and how to work with species that are sympathetic to the Australian environment.
From the earliest crop plantings to the most elaborate formal gardens, humans have cultivated gardens for millennia. Recently there has been a shift away from clean lines and perfectly trimmed hedges to more naturalistic plantings: the new natural garden is considered and curated, taking its cues from the surrounding landscape. Plants are laid out asymmetrically but still are balanced, random in appearance, as though seeds have blown in and germinated where they fell.
Garden designer and Garden Life founder, Richard Unsworth, offers advice on how to select landscape materials that sit effortlessly in the landscape, and planting combinations that thrive in different settings, and discusses principles of bush regeneration and restoration. Whether large or small, urban or rural, every garden and every gardener can benefit from wildening their surroundings to reconnect with nature.
To celebrate the launch of this book, join us at the following author events.
The Natural Gardener Author Events
- 26 October – Bookoccino Bookstore:
Morning Tea at Trincomalee, Pittwater – Tickets. - 29 October – Roaring Stories Bookstore:
Paul Bangay & Richard Unsworth – Tickets. - 12 November – Potts Point Bookshop:
Richard Unsworth on The Natural Gardener – Tickets.
About Richard Unsworth
Richard Unsworth is a garden designer, writer, and the owner of the outdoor design store Garden Life based in Sydney. He has contributed to the garden pages of both Belle and Good Weekend magazines. Passionate about the natural environment, he spends his free time restoring the garden at his heritage home in Pittwater and helping people better connect with nature and with each other through a series of bushwalks to raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. His previous books include Garden Life (2014) and The City Gardener, published in 2021.
29 October 2024 | 9781760763589 | Hardback | AU$59.99 | Published by Thames & Hudson Australia
GARDEN LIFE. PLANT JOY.
Gardening is an act of self-love and love for the planet. It is my hope that this book will inspire others to plant trees, to care for a patch, wherever that may be, to think about what may have grown there before and to start to repair, one plant at a time.
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