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"Best of - The Garden for Smart Lazy" teaches how to grow colorful and effective
Our book tip for January "Best of - The garden for intelligent Lazy"
The somewhat provocative title could initially be misunderstood. It's not about naturally comfortable or lazy people who should be taught in this book how to keep their garden in order. The author rather describes how, with a bit of intelligence and a little bit of knowledge about small and NATURAL gardening, the work between the flower beds, the fruit trees, the garden pond and the greenhouse is not excessively overcrowded and the yields are still generous.
The "best of" variant of the guide series, which has been firmly established on the market for more than 15 years, is not suitable for perfectionists who are exclusively anxious to line up their daisies and bluebells neatly or hyperventilate immediately if they vole between discover her climbing roses carefully trimmed to 1.50 meters.
Karl Ploberger, DER Biogärtner from Austria, was already engaged in "Garteln" at the tender age of six and inspired his readers to skilful, intelligent disorder based on the model of a combination of Bauerngarten and Blumenwiese. Nevertheless, the reader learns right on the first pages that planning is everything for the not necessarily low-maintenance natural garden. On the 272 pages (edition) of the new book published in March 2019 from the Cadmos Verlag everything revolves around the natural garden design. The reader will be taught countless practical ideas for mixing mixed cultures, after learning how gentle soil tillage can even achieve the end of digging.
One does not hold a garden book of the traditional kind, which is based on a scientifically and according to all botanical rules ordered index in the hands. It is more of a magazine that encourages readers to mark the information and book passages that are particularly useful for them with dog-eared ears or, better yet, insert notepads in the most important pages in order to be able to pick them up again whenever necessary. Whether the "7 steps to a different garden" or Ploberger's message "Mixed colors ... is half worked" - it quickly becomes apparent in chapters of this kind that a convinced practitioner "speaks" here. He encourages reflection and rethinking, does not patronize and takes his readers in a sympathetic way in the hand to garden with nature and not against them. Ten interesting chapters, each with basic knowledge, successful photos (and graphics), many practical tips for first aid and reader questions make "Best of - The Garden for intelligent Lazy" an informative guide, in the self-employed leisure gardener many valuable and easily implementable suggestions obtained first-hand.