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Gerritsen and Oudolf describe their special choice of ideal plants - perennials, bulbs, grasses, ferns and small shrubs. The book provides complete growing information for each plant and advice on how to use them to best effect. Rather than striving to create big and bold masses of colourful blooms that are vigorously pruned back as soon as they have finished flowering, the Gerritsen and Oudolf choose plants chiefly for their form - leaves, flower heads and stems included - which retain their natural beauty through all the seasons. The structure of the book is based around the way that plants behave - their relative growing strengths and reliablity - factors that always inform the authors' designs.