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Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design

Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design

by NancyJ.Ondra (Author), SaxonHolt (Photographer)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

Discover the versatility of ornamental grases in your garden all year-round with this informative little book. It illustrates how to combine grasses with other garden plants for both subtle and exploseive colour effects. Grasses can be used to bring textural complements and contrasts into play in your garden. Captured by light and wind, ornamental grasses offer unexpected life, movement and drama to every home landscape.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 143
 Publisher: Garden Art Press
Published: 01 Jan 1999
ISBN 10: 1870673425
ISBN 13: 9781870673426

Media Reviews
Grasses have grown in popularity over the last few years, their ease of maintenance and soft forms making them a gardener's dream. From the original prairie plantings which migrated here from the US and Europe, grasses are now more widely recognised as good doers for the garden. Adding form, softness, colour and all year interest they are taking the place of the stolid evergreens so endemic in this country for winter colour , adding cohesion and diversity of form to beds and borders. Being so amenable means many are happy growing in shade, dry soil, moist soil, and containers or as statuesque features in island beds on their own. US garden writer, Nancy Ondra, presents a comprehensive look at the most easily available grasses. Including some grass-like plants such as a phormium, liriope and ophiopogon, she takes the reader through a careful selection of grasses for particular colour schemes and sites. Wonderfully photographed by Saxon Holt, this is an inspirational guide to grasses' uses in the garden accompanied by sound cultivation advice. If you are wary of grasses or unsure how to use them, this colourful book will set aside such doubts and ensure an easy introduction to these easy, amenable range of plants. - Lucy Watson
Author Bio
Nancy Ondra is a freelance garden writer and editor from Emmaus, Pennsylvania, where where she operated Pendrago Perennials, a small rare-plant nursery, for 6 years. She is the author or co-editor of 6 gardening books and has also written for several magazines.