Special Plants: Over 500 Outstanding Plants for the Enthusiastic Gardener - Hardcover

Taylor, Jane

9781899988518: Special Plants: Over 500 Outstanding Plants for the Enthusiastic Gardener

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1899988513 ISBN 13: 9781899988518

Publisher: Quadrille, 1998

In Special Plants, Jane Taylor offers a personal selection of both familiar and lesser-known plants. 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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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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