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RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations: Over 4,000 Achievable Planting Schemes

RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations: Over 4,000 Achievable Planting Schemes

by TonyLord (Author), Andrew Lawson (Photographer)

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    Paperback 2012

    $7.88
Synopsis

RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations is the essential reference book for anyone wanting to combine plants according to shape, colour, texture, or form. 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 and analyses of what makes a successful combination, the authors show how to recreate combinations shown and invent new combinations of your own. 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: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 05 Mar 2012
ISBN 10: 1845336828
ISBN 13: 9781845336820
Book Overview: Fully revised and expanded edition with 48 pages of Great Planting Styles & Great Planting Designers, now available with a flexi binding; A definitive guide to more than 4,000 achievable combinations; Includes practical advice on creating your own schemes using colour, shape and form and the timing of the season; Combines all ornamental plants including trees, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, climbers, roses and annuals; The only 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 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
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.