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The RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations

The RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations

by W. Anthony Lord (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

    $8.19
Synopsis

This visionary planting guide features an A-Z of more than 1,000 great garden plants. Each plant is photographed in glorious partnership with one, two or three ideal companions, creating more than 4,000 of the most imaginative and visually effective combinations possible. With a practical introduction, analyses of what makes a successful combination, the author goes on to show how to recreate combinations shown and invent new combinations. 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 their gardens.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 15 Apr 2008
ISBN 10: 1845333268
ISBN 13: 9781845333263
Book Overview: Mitchell Beazley owns the only major reference for combining plants which is on a scale with the highly successful RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers. RHS branding endorses this 'plant combinations' category-killer. 48 new pages of plants and combination theory and practice. The first 100% photographic guide to plant combining. Special photography by world-famous Andrew Lawson. Written by leading plant expert and RHS Plant Finder guru, Tony Lord. New easy-to-follow key for the at-a-glance symbols that indicate ideal soil and growing conditions for all 1000 plants. Detailed information about which plants go best together according to location, soil type, climatic, and/or seasonal considerations.

Author Bio
Tony Lord is a gardening author, photographer and consultant with an expert eye for effective planting combinations. Formerly a Gardens Adviser to the National Trust, he edits The Royal Horticultural Society's annual Plant Finder, and lectures on plants, gardens and garden history. His books include Best Borders, winner of the Garden Writers' Guild 'Book of the Year' award for 1994, Gardening at Sissinghurst, and Designing with Roses. Andrew Lawson, photographer, was a major contributor to Highgrove, Portrait of an Estate by HRH The Prince of Wales, and as author and photographer has published Performance Plants, and The Gardener's Book of Colour. In 1999 he was named 'Garden Photographer of the Year' by the Garden Writers' Guild. Andrew Lawson lives in Oxfordshire.