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Cultivating Chaos: Gardening with Self-Seeding Plants: How to Enrich Landscapes with Self-seeding Plants - Hardcover

 
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Cultivating Chaos reveals how gardeners can make their own natural landscape gardens using self-seeding plants. The authors showcase iconic gardens such as Great Dixter, Waltham Place and Derek Jarman's garden at Dungeness where self-seeders have been managed to create informal but disciplined garden spaces. They provide extensive information on how to improve soil to maximise germination of these naturally vigorous plants and recommend selfseeders for different sites and conditions.

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Jonas Reif is chief editor of german magazine 'Garten Praxis'. He is an experimental landscape designer and passionate gardener. Christian Kress is owner of the Sarastro perennials nursery in Innkreis, Upper Austria. Jurgen Becker, is a multi-award winning garden photographer who lives in Hilden, Germany

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How do you garden with self-seeding plants? Managing a garden that relies on self-seeding plants for effect differs greatly from the traditional approach to gardening. It considers planning and maintenance as interlinked and works with nature rather than against it. Dynamic change and chance play important roles in the process, as so the plants and the willingness to work with forces that are outside our control. 

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Once upon a time I bought a plant of Geranium sylvaticum ‘Birch Lilac.' Nine years later, when I moved on from that particular garden, there must have been a hundred of them. It had seeded pretty well all over, so every year May became a haze of violet-blue. It was the perfect seeder, never over-doing it, and crucially, it being a relatively narrow plant, it never swamped anything else. Like many of the best self-seeding effects in gardens its behaviour was not predicted. And like many, when I tried to reproduce it in my next garden, the plant would only self-sow reluctantly.
 
Allowing and encouraging plants to set seed in the garden and spread themselves around is very much a part of the new garden zeitgeist. Once we planted things and expected them
to stay where they were put. Gardening now is much more accepting of spontaneity, of natural processes of birth, death and decay. Embracing plants that self-seed is part of becoming a manager of nature rather than a controller. Seeding is a vital way in which plant communities thrive and survive. Allowing it in the garden can be seen as a way of the garden becoming an ecological system.
 
Self-seeding can be a mixed blessing of course. First there is the unpredictability. Although some, like Aquilegia vulgaris, seem to seed in most gardens, most species are not so obliging; they may seed well, or poorly, or not at all, or too much. The latter can be a problem, and there are certainly plants which I now regard as near weeds which started out as desired plants. The winter annual Euphorbia rigida  is one. I was thrilled when I first saw seedlings, as I always am when a new plant does this – a sign that the species is at home, and that I have a real dynamic ecological system on my hands. But when the numbers increased, to start to clutter every piece of empty ground within seed-throwing distance of the parent, then I began to regret it, especially as the plants fell over as soon as they flower. Now, almost on the point of eliminating it, I step back from the brink, and let a few survive. In the denser vegetation of what is now a more established garden, they do not seed so much, they have to compete for resources and are more likely to be supported by neighbours. But I will continue to watch them.
 
Managing the mysteries of self-seeders engages the gardener in the ongoing process of the garden’s own independent life, and is a reminder of the wider world of natural systems, of which the garden can be a tiny and homely example. It is good to have a book that recognises the importance of this vital ecological process. Self-seeding can be a little alarming to the nervous or the novice, and advice from experienced managers of the process is most valuable. —Noel Kingsbury
 

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