Success with acid-loving plants - Graham Clarke

Many gardens have acid soil. Tell-tale signs will be adjacent gardens, or the wider landscape, containing masses of healthy plants such as rhododendrons, camellias and heathers. But it will also mean that there is a large range of plants that cannot be easily grown. How can you identify these? Are there suitable alternatives? And what are the tricks to get the best from your soil? This helpful and attractive book helps identify the acidity of your soil and the practical advice given here will ensure you plant wisely and help you to create the garden of your dreams.

Graham Clarke grew up in London?s Royal Parks, including Queen Mary?s Rose Garden at Regent?s Park. He trained in horticulture at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Wisley, and subsequently spent a year working in the gardens at Buckingham Palace. He has been a gardening writer for 25 years and is the author of a number of books, including: Water Gardening, Pruning, Autumn Colour in the Garden, Your Questions Answered, Complete Book of House Plants, Complete Book of Plant Propagation. He is also well-known for his contributions to magazines such as Horticulture Week, Organic Life, Gardens Monthly and The Garden (RHS). He lives in Bournemouth, on the English South Coast.