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The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations

The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations

by W. Anthony Lord (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 13 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 184000035X
ISBN 13: 9781840000351
Book Overview: Tony Lord is the author of Gardening at Sissinghurst , Versatile Roses and Best Borders , winner of the Garden Writer's Guild Gardening Book of the Year award for 1994. Andrew Lawson was named Garden Photographer of the Year in 1994 by the Garden Writer's Guild

Media Reviews
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 Watson