Great Gardens for Kids

“Matthews celebrates the antithesis of the look-but-don’t-touch, no-kids-allowed landscapes with whimsical garden projects designed especially for the young...[He] carefully walks even the most tool-challenged adult through easy step-by-step instructions for more than 35 dynamic projects, depicted in eye-popping photographs.”—Booklist. “Interesting, entertaining, and edu-cational for children and the young-at-heart.”—Library Journal. Gardens can be great getaways for kids, and with these 50 colorfully illustrated, simple projects even the smallest lawn can become a children's paradise. Without compromising on safety, your pocketbook, or the garden's finished look, you can build brilliant hideaways such as flower teepees and washing line tents or construct innovative play structures including mindboggling mazes and climbing walls. Watch your child blossom in a landscape that inspires imaginative play, provides physical challenges, and nurtures an interest in nature.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Matthews, Clare

Gardening & Landscape Design

Hamlyn

Give your garden a low-cost makeover with stunning containers that you make, decorate, and plant yourself. More than 60 quick and easy projects allow you to make a big impact in even the smallest space. Use painting, marbling, mosaic, gilding, and additional techniques to add color, style, and individuality to your doorways, windowsills, balconies, and other areas of the yard. Hang beautiful dwarf chrysanthemums in eye-catching beaded pots. Draw the eye with shocking-pink painted containers filled with shocking-pink flowers. From pretty and romantic to sleek and sophisticated, these containers and plantings complement every style.

Great Containers: Making - Decorating - Planting

Help children cultivate their gardens--and grow beautifully along with them. These 40 rewarding projects take youngsters away from the TV and out into the fresh air, to channel youthful energies in exciting new ways. And parents share in the fun, too--whether it's helping to grow an herb garden in a box or making a mosaic sundial. Introduce budding gardeners to the satisfaction of planting and harvesting their own vegetables and flowers, the creative challenge of carving gourds, and the scientific experience of building a weather station, as well as the opportunity to explore the wonders of nature, right in their own backyards.

How Does Your Garden Grow?: Great Gardening For Green-Fingered Kids

Children's Books

"Matthews celebrates the antithesis of the look-but-don't-touch, no-kids-allowed landscapes...[She] carefully walks even the most tool-challenged adult through more than 35 dynamic projects, depicted in eye-popping photographs."--Booklist "Interesting, entertaining, and educational for children and the young-at-heart."--Library Journal "You can play in the yard, but don't go near the garden!" That's a familiar parental refrain, but gardens can be great getaways for kids. With the 50 colorfully illustrated, simple projects in these pages even the smallest lawn can become a children's paradise. Without compromising on safety, your pocketbook, or the garden's finished look, you can build brilliant hideaways such as flower teepees and washing line tents or construct innovative play structures including mind-boggling mazes and climbing walls. Children will blossom in these landscapes that inspire imaginative play, provide physical challenges, and nurture an interest in nature.

Nichols, Clive

Imagine the possibilities for your garden! This sourcebook of innovative projects will turn any boring backyard into an extraordinary space for entertaining or relaxation. From the author of the bestselling Great Gardens for Kids, and illustrated by a prominent garden photographer, these enticing ideas require no special skills or tools. Just follow the straightforward instructions and practical photography to create a sari canopy to dress up an existing drab porch, a floral wind screen for a secluded spot, or a romantic chandelier bejeweled with crystal drops, ivy, and tea lights. Stylishly display your favorite plants or spruce up the kids’ play area—it’s all here, and easier than ever.

Easy Outdoor Living: 40 Great Garden Projects

If you want a flourishing, productive fruit garden, but don t have the time or knowledge, look no further! Expert gardener Clare Matthews demystifies fruit growing, and teaches you how to complete it as a weekend project or fit it into a busy week. With these simple shortcuts, unique low--maintenance strategies, and practical instructions, your thriving fruit garden has never been easier.

The Easy Fruit Garden: A No-Nonsense Guide to Growing the Fruit You Love

Cedar Fort

Spend less time in the garden― and get more results! This book demystifies the growing of fruit and vegetables and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week. Experienced garden designer Clare Matthews explains simple short cuts and unusual low maintenance strategies that really work. Her book is filled with inspirational color photography from her own weekend vegetable garden where the principles promoted in this book have been tried, tested and proven. Low Maintenance Vegetable Gardening will appeal to the complete novice planning a new vegetable garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, it is an indispensible guide for anyone with limited time who still wants to achieve high yields from their vegetable plot. Inside Low Maintenance Vegetable Gardening A no-nonsense guide to growing the vegetables you love to eat the easy way. Explains time-saving techniques, simple short cuts, and effective low-maintenance strategies. Packed with practical advice from planning what to grow and companion planting to dealing with pests and diseases and no-dig gardening. Gorgeous color photography from the author's own weekend vegetable garden, shot by renowned garden photographer Clive Nichols. Essential reading for the time-poor gardener who wants to achieve maximum yields from their vegetable plot with minimum effort.

Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening: Bumper Crops in Minutes a Day Using Raised Beds, Planning, and Plant Selection (CompanionHouse Books) Easy, Beginner-Friendly Techniques for a Productive Garden

CompanionHouse Books

Wouldn't it be great to easily and quickly grow fresh fruit and vegetables in your own backyard? Through the simple shortcuts and unconventional low-maintenance strategies presented in this guide, would-be gardeners can learn the tricks needed to grow their own produce without putting in a lot of work. The simple instructions are accompanied by inspirational photographs that will encourage novices, while the solid horticultural advice will help even experienced gardeners get great results in no time.

The Low Maintenance Vegetable Garden

Design Originals

With rising food prices and increasing awareness of food provenance and chemical usage, more people are interested in growing their own food. But while few gardeners think twice about growing vegetables, fruits are another matter. Now, expert gardener Clare Matthews demystifies fruit growing, offering simple shortcuts, unusual low-maintenance strategies, and practical instructions. Shot by well-respected photographer Clive Nichols, The Easy Fruit Garden will appeal to the complete novice as well as to more experienced gardeners looking to save time and increase productivity. 

The Easy Fruit Garden

New Holland Pub Ltd

This inspirational and practical book demonstrates how well-chosen houseplants breathe life into an interior, lifting the spirits, providing a burst of colour and texture and fill a room with scent and character. Informed and imaginative text by Clare Matthews and stunning photography by Clive Nichols demonstrate how tired or unwelcoming rooms can be instantly transformed with a few well-chosen houseplants. Choosing the right plant for difficult locations, using colour creatively and the importance of texture, shape and scale are all explained. The book reveals how to use budget plants and containers to great effect as well as how to get the best from investment plants. There are separate chapters on flowering and foliage plants, on containers and plant choices for difficult positions, as well as advice on feeding, watering and dealing with problems. It concludes with a plant profile directory that gives good, solid information on the care of the most commonly grown houseplants.

Houseplants: Plants to Add Style and Glamour to Your Home

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Books by Matthews, Clare

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Great Gardens for Kids

Great Containers: Making - Decorating - Planting

How Does Your Garden Grow?: Great Gardening For Green-Fingered Kids

Great Gardens for Kids

Easy Outdoor Living: 40 Great Garden Projects

The Easy Fruit Garden: A No-Nonsense Guide to Growing the Fruit You Love

Low-Maintenance Vegetable Gardening: Bumper Crops in Minutes a Day Using Raised Beds, Planning, and Plant Selection (CompanionHouse Books) Easy, Beginner-Friendly Techniques for a Productive Garden

The Low Maintenance Vegetable Garden

The Easy Fruit Garden

Houseplants: Plants to Add Style and Glamour to Your Home