Fast and Easy Waterwise Gardens, Coastal Zone, Cape Town to Mossel Bay

Fast and Easy Waterwise Gardens, Coastal Zone, Cape Town to Mossel Bay 

By Glenn Ashton

Published by Ekogaia, 2005

First soft cover, smaller format, with some line illustrations, 64 pages, good condition.

This guide gives complete background information on how to prepare your garden for planting and explains how best to situate plants in suitable positions.

A complete plant list is included, along with clear guidelines on how to mimic local natural processes to speed up the establishment of your garden. Using the handy advice you will be able to start from scratch or simply give your existing garden a boost toward waterwise beauty. You will even find that it is possible to grow trees here quickly, despite what you have been told!

This easy-to-read book is already selling very well in the region and provides an invaluable tool to bring the beauty of our surroundings back into our suburbs and homes.

"With lots of useful tips based on hands-on experience this book will help you to re-create nature on your doorstep and watch the diversity of the Cape return to your garden. It is mostly about doing, creating and observing while having fun as an eco-engineer. There is a great list of useful, indigenous plants and clear instructions on how to make them thrive in your garden." -- Professor Timm Hoffman, Director, Leslie Hill Institute for Plant Conservation, Botany Department, University of Cape Town

"The Cape Floristic region is the smallest and most special of the world's six Botanical Kingdoms. This informative book tells us how to incorporate these floral gems into our very own coastal gardens. Brilliant!" -- Wally Petersen, director, Kommetjie Environmental Action Group.

"Fantastic book. A good practical guide to creating beautiful, indigenous garden ecosystems." -- Dr. Philip Desmet, conservation biologist.