Special Plants: Over 500 Outstanding Plants for the Enthusiastic Gardener (Country Living) - Softcover

Jane Taylor

9781902757469: Special Plants: Over 500 Outstanding Plants for the Enthusiastic Gardener (Country Living)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902757467 ISBN 13: 9781902757469

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing, 2000

Choosing the best plants from among the many available is a daunting yet vital aspect of gardening. Here are 500 recommendations for plants with special qualities - a long flowering season, attractive foliage or fabulous scent - designed to help add an extra dimension to planting schemes.

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This book is intended for the discerning gardener who aspires to more than the �Garden Center One Hundred� plants that are so easy to produce and sell. In Special Plants, Jane Taylor offers a personal selection of �plants familiar and plants not so well known. What unites them is that they have all, in one way or another, captured my heart.� She begins with those trees and shrubs with enough character to stand on their own and to provide an overall framework for the garden. She moves on to plants that scramble over walls and arches, and then to those that are happiest in woodland and bog. She looks at plants for beds and borders in two ways: to provide long-lasting flower and foliage effects and to add more fleeting delights, particularly those of bulbs and annuals. At the heart of each chapter is a plant-by-plant directory in which each entry pinpoints the plant�s most effective feature and explains its basic horticultural requirements. Gracefully written and exquisitely photographed, this is book that will find its place at the side of every discriminating gardener.

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