Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden [Paperback]

Norman Winter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 2009

In Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden, Norman Winter shows how to create dazzling landscapes based on colors, how to select for harmony, and how to create stunning contrasts. He takes the gardener through combinations of flowers, foliage, grasses, and herbs. He also guides acolytes to companion plantings for special theme gardens, such as cottage, tropical, butterfly and hummingbird, herb and edible, container, and even the new patriotic Victory Garden.

Featuring over 200 color photographs, Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden is filled with cutting-edge ideas for the savvy gardener working with superior varieties found at today's progressive garden centers. Winter, a revered garden guru, discovers the choicest selections for the savvy home landscaper. Some of these exotic and unusual flowers come from places such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, and the Mediterranean, but others are native plants.

Gardeners want to select varieties that not only provide the best value but also offer sizzle and performance within the style and conditions of a particular location. In his book, Winter explains how to transform a landscape into a the garden by combining plants with attention-getting beauty in mind.

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About the Author

Known to many as the Southern Gardening Guru, Norman Winter is one of the most sought-after garden lecturers in the South and is a horticulture specialist at Mississippi State University Extension. His previous books are Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South (University Press of Mississippi), Mississippi Gardener's Guide, and Paradise Found: Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard, and he writes a weekly syndicated column on gardening.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) (March 9, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934110930
• ISBN-13: 978-1934110935
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,594,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating Combinations: Color ans Stlye in the Garden, December 26, 2011

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I ordered this book for my husband some time ago. He keeps it on the coffee table at all times and is always going back to it to read about some plant or flower he has seen or heard about. CAPTIVATING COMBINATIONS:COLOR AND STYLE IN THE GARDEN is definitely a book for all gardeners. And Amazon.com has the best price I have found.

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy kindle edition especially if using iPad, January 24, 2012

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If like me , you use an iPad to read kindle books, don't bother to buy this book as you will be very disappointed in the quality of the photographs they are very low resolution and the colour is ridiculously oversaturated. It's something of a pity that the publishers chose to produce such a poor copy for the kindle. This is becoming a common experience for me with kindle based gardening books.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great garden writer, July 10, 2009

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Sybil N. Phillips (Tuscaloosa, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews
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I have heard Norman Winter speak and he is a great garden speaker as well as being a great writer. He has spoken here in Tuscaloosa in 2004 to a garden group. He is on our calendar again for 2010.
His books are very reablable and reads just like he speaks.