Tony Lord's planting guide features thousands of individual plants in combination with other plants that create the most imaginative and visually effective displays possible. Plants are grouped by type and individual species are listed alphabetically by botanical names.
Provides over one thousand descriptions for colorful plants, suggesting combinations based on mixing and matching color, texture, and visual effects to create a perfect garden.
With chapters on bulbs, climbers, perennials, shrubs, trees, roses, and annuals, this book has become the essential reference book for all those who wish to combine plants according to colour, shape, texture, and form in every corner of ...
Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden
Scott Calhoun provides more than 100 stunning garden designs that are adaptable to a range of climates, budgets, and space considerations.
In St. Louis, C. heracleifolia bloomed from late May or late August until early July or late September. At Longwood, the cultivar 'Mrs. Robert Brydon' began flowering in early to mid-July. Only once in 7 years, it bloomed as early as ...
Create stunning effects, from clouds of delicate meadow grasses to striking bamboo plantings by adding ornamental grasses to your garden.
Reflecting the latest research on how plants influence and communicate with each other, Jessica Walliser offers a research-based guide to companion planting—a gardening method that uses strategic plant partnerships to improve crop yields ...
Following on from their hugely successful first book, Outdoors, Diarmuid Gavin and Terence Conran collaborate once again to create PLANTING, a stunning and imaginative resource of planting schemes that work for almost any garden space.
Here are the basics of garden design, plant selection and care.The lifespan, bloom time, culture and form of perennial plants varies greatly.
With more than 120 garden plans designed to fit every imaginable landscape situation, this new volume guides readers through the issues that perplex everyone planning a garden.