A stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly outdoor space. Sustainable gardener Marian Boswall walks us through the process of creating and maintaining a sustainable outdoor space, offering tips, guidance and step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle.

Introduction
Living
A small part of nature
How do you want to live?
Before you begin
Working with nature
Planning ahead
Clean energy
Sustainable tool kit
Time to connect and notice
Plants by the door
Creating space
Planning the site
Boundaries
Materials
Starting with soil
The wonder of worms
Water, water
Plastic: from love to hate
Gathering
Making memories
Choosing furniture
Cultivating place
Plants for purpose and place
Sourcing plants
Choosing plants
Plants for free
The vegetable garden
Garden in tune with the seasons
and the moon
Gardening for your gut
Conclusion
Index
Further reading
Acknowledgments

Marian Boswall is a leading landscape architect and horticulturalist, was a lecturer in Historic Garden Conservation at Greenwich University for several years and is a co-founder of the Sustainable Landscape Foundation. Her projects invest in the land for the very long term and wellness is a deeply embedded ethos: Marian works with the way the land can heal and connect us on all levels; in early 2020 she gave a TedX talk on how our gardens can care for us and the earth. Marian writes and lectures on sustainable design and was awarded the Garden Columnist of the Year in 2019. She has also been featured as a Country Life ‘Top 50’ Garden Designer, House & Garden ‘Top 50’ UK Garden Designer and Country and Town House ‘Top 10’ Garden Designer.

Jason Ingram is an award-winning garden and food photographer who photographs plants, gardens and people for magazines and books. His previous published work with Frances Lincoln includes Kitchen Garden Experts, One Pot Gourmet Gardener and The Cut Flower Patch. Jason was judged Photographer of the Year by the Garden Media Guild in 2013 and 2014.