Geography & the Environment
Description
This book is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated colour guide to the plants which farmers, growers and gardeners can use to improve soil structure and restore fertility without the use and expense of agrichemicals. Information based on the latest research is given on how to use soil conditioning plants to avoid soil degradation, restore soil quality and help clean polluted land. There are 11 chapters: 1 to 6 cover soil health, nitrogen fixation, green manures and herbal leys, bacteria and other microorganisms, phytoremediators and soil mycorrhiza (plant-fungal symbiosis). Chapter 7 has plant illustrations, with climate range and soil types, along with their soil conditioning properties and each plant is presented with a comprehensive description opposite a detailed illustration, in full colour. Chapters 8 to 10 examine soil stabilisers, weeds and invasive plants, and hedges and trees and the final chapter, contains 5 case studies with the most recent data, followed by an appendix and glossary. The book allows the reader to identify the plants they need quickly and find the information necessary to begin implementation of soil regeneration.
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Author Biography
Sally Pinhey JP, MSc, SGM, FCPGFS, FLS, full member of the Association of Illustrators and the Institute of analytical Plant Illustration. Studying Mediterranean flora led to 2 silver gilt medals, and 2 silver RHS Grenfell medals,. A qualified teacher, she has been the Botanical Art instructor at Kingston Maurward College since 1998, and tutored courses at the Eden Project in Cornwall from 2000- 2003. She was an invited demonstrator at Art in Action in 2002, '3 and '5. She completed her MSc at Bournemouth University with merit it 2017. Joint tutor with Margaret Tebbs since 2013, running work shops entitled "Botany for Artists." at education venues in dorset and Hampshire... She is a Fellow of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society, and is passionate about providing plant illustrations for scientific archives. In 2017 she co -founded the Botanical Illustration Ecology Group (BIEG) with Margaret Tebbs.; Margaret Tebbs, member of the Institute of Analytical Plant Illustr
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- Publisher/Imprint CABI / CAB International
- Publication Date March 2022
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781789243604 / 1789243602
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 55 GBP
- Pages168
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions246 X 189 mm
- Reference Code4716
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