The Garden Refresh: How to Give Your Yard Big Impact on a Small Budget

by Kier Holmes

Overview

Grow more, spend less

So you want a stylish, healthy, and productive garden that is budget and Earth-friendly? Of course you do. Garden designer Kier Holmes shows you how, in this accessible and spunky guide. She shares everything you need to create a productive and lush garden that can truly be used and enjoyed. Packed with hundreds of tips on design, plant selection, and how to address problematic situations, it also has information on which hardscape elements are worth the splurge, how to decide where to start, and how to reduce maintenance through design. Inspirational, practical, and endlessly creative, The Garden Refresh is destined to become the book you turn to again and again for the best insider ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643260815
Publisher:	Timber Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	658,172
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kier Holmes contributes to various publications including Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Gardenista, Sonoma Magazine, Marin Magazine,and Sunset Magazine. She is also a children’s garden and science educator, plus a speaker on various gardening topics.

Editorial Reviews

02/07/2022

Designer Holmes offers suggestions for sprucing up a garden “guided by ecological responsibility, embracing recycled materials and creative salvaged treasures” in her California-cool debut. Writing that “my love of gardening—and my creativity and resourcefulness—started as a child of hippie parents living in Marin County during the funky 1970s,” she makes a case that a successful garden is one that’s personalized and purposeful. She recommends using what one already has, such as upcycling an old shipping pallet into a coffee table, and suggests that projects such as walkways, walls, and irrigation are worth spending money on. As for greenery, she encourages starting with small plants that can quickly adapt to their new surroundings and practicing “social distancing” in the garden to allow room to grow. Holmes also shares some of her favorite plant “power couple” pairings; makes recommendations for special situations (“Gardening with deer requires flexibility in plant choices, experimentation, and a little luck”); and provides recipes for a pest repellent and natural fertilizer. Her best tips are both practical and creative, such as using a coffee filter to cover a pot’s drainage hole and starting seeds in ice cream cones. Holmes’s easygoing style will get any gardener’s creativity sparking. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly