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Right Plant, Right Place. And tomorrow?
No sentence is more closely bound up with Beth Chatto's gardening than Right Plant, Right Place. It is a simple rule with an attitude underneath it: plants should not be forced to grow where they do not want to live. Understand the conditions of a site first, then choose plants that can actually thrive there.
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How to make a dry garden
We've published a free field guide to dry gardens.
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- Guide How natural swimming pools work Free to read: how a natural pool cleans its own water, and what to plan before you build.
- Guide What is a crevice garden? Free to read: what a crevice garden is, why it works, and how to build one.
- News A new home for Filbert Press The full catalogue, the people behind the books, and a quiet letter from the editors — gathered in one place.
- News Nigel Dunnett A note from the publisher.
- News Filbert Press joins PLANTVS — A New Chapter A note on a new chapter for one of Britain's most distinctive independent garden book houses.
- Reviews Rave review in Pacific Horticulture Mary Bagazinski on Shrouded in Light by Kevin Philip Williams & Michael Guidi.
- News SHRUB-A-DUB-DUB ’24 Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi tour the UK with Shrouded in Light.
- Reviews Trees, reviewed in landskap The Essential Tree Selection Guide picked up in Sweden’s journal of landscape architecture.
- Interviews Q&A with John Little Habitat trials at Hilldrop — John Little’s experimental playground.
- Events Crevice Gardening — the new face of the rock garden Kenton Seth and Paul Spriggs in conversation with Garden Masterclass.
- Interviews Q&A with James Golden On gardens as places of meaning — and on building one on wet New Jersey clay.
- Extracts The Garden Pushes Back An extract from The View from Federal Twist, featured on Wonderground.
- News Tokachi Millennium Forest — A Thousand-Year Garden Forest bathing in Hokkaido — Dan Pearson and Midori Shintani’s account of a thousand-year garden.
- News In the garden Sea thrift, red mason bees and a brimstone moth — notes from a week in April.
- Reviews Rachel Siegfried in The Daily Telegraph Clare Coulson on The Cut Flower Sourcebook — a year-round case for perennials and woody plants.