In Nature's Slipstream

Welcome to a new approach to gardening that gives equal weight to beauty and sustainability, creating a charming haven filled with flowers where the gardener and nature work in harmony.Carol Bruce has spent over 20 years considering how we relate to nature and the implications this has for gardening. Driven to find a balance between a wild and cultivated environment, she developed a method that combines both in a holistic system, resulting in a garden of otherworldly beauty. With lessons from the countryside and her own garden, Carol takes you on a journey where you will learn: Sustainable Design and Maintenance Methods: How to incorporate natural processes within your garden without sacrificing its beauty. Adapting Existing Spaces: How to modify your existing flowerbeds to future-proof your garden and welcome wildlife.Personal Style and Colour Schemes: How to combine layout and colour scheming techniques to express your own personal style. A self-taught gardener, Carol designed her own award-winning garden from scratch, which harnesses self-sowing and natural selection for resilience, is free from irrigation, pesticides, and fertilisers, and acts as a haven for wildlife. Having worked through all the trial and error herself, she now shares her knowledge, proven techniques, and planting schemes to give others a shortcut to transforming their own space - whether starting from scratch or with a garden to adapt.In Nature's Slipstream acts as a personal gardening tutor, helping you to achieve a beautiful, manageable garden that is completely in harmony with the natural world.