The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations
Tony Lord(Author)
Mitchell Beazley (Publisher)
Published on 13. March 2003
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-1-84000-035-1 (ISBN)
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Description
Every gardener wants to create the perfect garden. With this in mind, this planning guide features more than 1000 individual plants in combination with other plants, showing over 4000 imaginative and visually effective displays, providing detailed information about which plants go best together according to location, soil type, climatic and seasonal considerations. Separate chapters are devoted to shrubs, small trees, roses, climbers, perennials, annuals and bulbs.
Every gardener wants to create the perfect garden. With this in mind, this planning guide features more than 1000 individual plants in combination with other plants, showing over 4000 imaginative and visually effective displays, providing detailed information about which plants go best together according to location, soil type, climatic and seasonal considerations. Separate chapters are devoted to shrubs, small trees, roses, climbers, perennials, annuals and bulbs.
Every gardener wants to create the perfect garden. With this in mind, this planning guide features more than 1000 individual plants in combination with other plants, showing over 4000 imaginative and visually effective displays, providing detailed information about which plants go best together according to location, soil type, climatic and seasonal considerations. Separate chapters are devoted to shrubs, small trees, roses, climbers, perennials, annuals and bulbs.
Reviews / Votes
What differentiates a lovely garden from a stunning garden? Design, choice of plants, care and cultivation can all be the same; it's the putting together, the matching of all these that creates the difference. Especially the plants which is where this lavishly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the subject steps in. There are so many aspects to think of before planting your latest acquisition - what soil type and aspect, how high does it grow, does the flower colour complement its neighbours, will it flower at the same time or will it grow so fast it will swamp its companions? Experienced horticulturalist Tony Lord offers the reader a vast array of inspirational and traditional combinations all accompanied by the sumptuous photographs of Andrew Lawson. Hours of enjoyment will be gleaned from within these pages organized by plant type and accompanied by valuable cultivation details. From old favourites such as pink roses and silver-leaved artemesias to the bolder citric lime euphorbias and pink dicentras, the combinations are endless and innovative offering choices for every gardener and every situation. An invaluable reference book for every gardeners' bookshelf. - Lucy WatsonWhat differentiates a lovely garden from a stunning garden? Design, choice of plants, care and cultivation can all be the same; it's the putting together, the matching of all these that creates the difference. Especially the plants which is where this lavishly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the subject steps in. There are so many aspects to think of before planting your latest acquisition - what soil type and aspect, how high does it grow, does the flower colour complement its neighbours, will it flower at the same time or will it grow so fast it will swamp its companions? Experienced horticulturalist Tony Lord offers the reader a vast array of inspirational and traditional combinations all accompanied by the sumptuous photographs of Andrew Lawson. Hours of enjoyment will be gleaned from within these pages organized by plant type and accompanied by valuable cultivation details. From old favourites such as pink roses and silver-leaved artemesias to the bolder citric lime euphorbias and pink dicentras, the combinations are endless and innovative offering choices for every gardener and every situation. An invaluable reference book for every gardeners' bookshelf. - Lucy Watson
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Illustrations
1100 colour photographs, colour plans, index
Dimensions
Height: 307 mm
Width: 243 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
2274 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84000-035-1 (9781840000351)
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04/2008
Mitchell Beazley
€57.14
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Content
How to use this book; hardiness zones. The art of combining plants: assessing the site; choosing plants; form and texture; colour in the garden; planting borders. Shrubs and small trees: rhododendrons. Climbers: clematis. Roses: climbing and rambler roses; old shrub roses; larger species and larger modern shrub roses; hybrid teas and floribundas; smaller species and smaller modern shrub roses; ground cover roses. Perennials: geraniums; hostas; irises. Bulbs: tulips. Annuals: dahlias. Common plant names.