Creating and Planting Garden Troughs
Editorial Reviews
Lren Russel, "Rock Garden Quarterly" (the Bulletin of the North American Rock Garden Society), Spring, 1999
"Moderately priced at $21, this well-illustrated book is an excellent value for anyone, experienced or not, who is interested in trough building."
About the Authors
Joyce Fingerut, President-elect of the North American Rock Garden Society and a well-known lecturer on making hypertufa garden troughs. Many of her award-winning troughs have been seen at the Philadelphia flower show and other horticultural exhibitions.
Rex Murfitt, trained in England at the famous W. E. Th. Ingwersen, Birch Farm Hardy Plant Nursery with Walter Ingwersen VMH and his son Will Ingwersen VMH, building rock gardens and traveling widely. There he learned the romance and lore of alpine plants. He later served as head gardener to Constance Spry. He eventually moved to New York and started Stonecrop Nurseries with Frank and Anne Cabot. He now lives in British Columbia where he writes and lectures on rock gardening, troughs, and alpine plants.
Creating and Planting Garden Troughs,Joyce Fingerut,Rex Murfitt,B.B. Mackey Books,1893443000,Container,Gardening,Gardening / Container,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening / Techniques,Gardening/Plants,Landscape,Landscape Horticulture,Alpine garden plants,Container gardening,Horticulture,Rock gardens,Techniques
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