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Dream plants for the natural garden
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By Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf, 144pp, h/b, ISBN: 0-711217-37-8
This is the first English edition of the bestselling Dutch reference book by top plant experts and garden designers, Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf.
They describe their special choice of ideal plants — perennials, bulbs, grasses, ferns and small shrubs.
These are both beautiful and robust, and perform reliably in the garden with very little input from the gardener.
The book provides complete growing information for each plant and advice on how to use them to best effect.
The unique structure of Dream Plants for the Natural Garden is based around the way that the plants behave — their relative growing strengths — so that whatever you are looking for, you can find a plant that will reliably fit the bill, thus taking much of the guesswork out of gardening.
In this book. the choice of plants reveals a genuinely innovative approach to gardening.
Rather than striving to create big and bold masses of colourful blooms that are vigorously pruned back as soon as they have finished flowering, Gerritsen and Oudolf choose plants chiefly for their form — leaves, flower heads and stems included — which retain their natural beauty through all the seasons.
This book offers a fascinating insight into Gerritsen and Oudolf's working methods, presenting a persuasive manifesto for the latest trend in contemporary gardening, and combining lively prose with encyclopaedic information.
This is the first English edition of the bestselling Dutch reference book by top plant experts and garden designers, Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf.
They describe their special choice of ideal plants — perennials, bulbs, grasses, ferns and small shrubs.
These are both beautiful and robust, and perform reliably in the garden with very little input from the gardener.
The book provides complete growing information for each plant and advice on how to use them to best effect.
The unique structure of Dream Plants for the Natural Garden is based around the way that the plants behave — their relative growing strengths — so that whatever you are looking for, you can find a plant that will reliably fit the bill, thus taking much of the guesswork out of gardening.
In this book. the choice of plants reveals a genuinely innovative approach to gardening.
Rather than striving to create big and bold masses of colourful blooms that are vigorously pruned back as soon as they have finished flowering, Gerritsen and Oudolf choose plants chiefly for their form — leaves, flower heads and stems included — which retain their natural beauty through all the seasons.
This book offers a fascinating insight into Gerritsen and Oudolf's working methods, presenting a persuasive manifesto for the latest trend in contemporary gardening, and combining lively prose with encyclopaedic information.
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