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The New Low-Maintenance Garden The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It Valerie Easton PhoToGraPhy by Jacqueline M. Koch Frontispiece: This starkly modern terrace is softened with one big pot stuffed with rosettes of Canary Island aeonium (Aeonium canariense) that play beautifully off the fluffy leaves of the African fern pine (Afrocarpus gracilior). These two plants make a striking statement yet are easy to care for because both require the same conditions of sun and drought. Sekhri garden, Jeong Hyeon Lee design, San Francisco, CA. Copyright © 2009 by Valerie Easton and Jacqueline M. Koch. Published in 2009 by Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204-3527 www.timberpress.com 2 The Quadrant 135 Salusbury Road London NW6 6RJ www.timberpress.co.uk Mention of trademark, proprietary product, or vendor does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of the product by the publisher or author and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of other products or vendors. Printed in the United States of America Second printing 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Easton, Valerie. The new low-maintenance garden: how to have a beautiful, productive garden and the time to enjoy it / Valerie Easton; photography by Jacqueline M. Koch. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-88192-916-4 ISBN 978-1-60469-166-5 (pbk.) 1. Low maintenance gardening. 2. Landscape gardening. 3. Gardens—Design. I. Koch, Jacqueline. II. Title. III. Title: New low maintenance garden. IV. Title: How to have a beautiful, productive garden and the time to enjoy it. SB473.E235 2009 635—dc22 2009008199 A catalog record for this book is also available from the British Library Book design: Karen Schober, Seattle, Washington To my nongardening family, who by enjoying the garden in their own ways have taught me the breadth of its pleasures. Their disinclination to pick up a shovel led to my simplifying the garden so that I’m able to care for it joyously and by myself. —VALERIE EASTON Always to my mother, who first got me into the garden, and to Chris, who keeps the garden of my life abundant, rich, and full of discovery. —JACQUELINE M. KOCH Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE SIMPLIFIED GARDEN: A NEW LOW-MAINTENANCE MANIFESTO DESIGN WITH MAINTENANCE IN MIND MAKE IT WORK SNATURE’S RHYTHMS EAT YOUR GARDEN CAREFREE CONTAINERS SMART CHOICES: EDITING YOUR PLANT PICKS INDEX GARDEN CREDITS
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