Similar in style to the Gardener's Guide series but somehwat larger in format and each covering a slightly broader theme, these books deal with hot topics in today's garden circles.
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Grounds (The Small Garden, 1994) takes on the plant world's largest family with an articulate and methodical presentation of grasses that includes horticultural history, botanical descriptions, cultural instructions and design recommendations. Readers will examine grasses as they fit into boundaried English gardens-as-art schemes and the flowing gardens-as-nature tradition imitating the American prairie. The vocabulary of grasses includes references to forms of leaf ("tufted," "fountain-like") and flower ("spike," "whisk," "plume"). Grounds divides his design chapters between colored-leaf grasses and flowering grasses. Segueing from the tradition of the contained English garden, with its static structure, defined edges and focus on blossoms and high maintenance, Grounds advocates visual drifts and rustling movement of flowering lawns, discussing "modern grasseries" in formal gardens, container grasses and the wild gardens of wetlands and dry woodlands. Swarms of Latin nomenclature may cloud the minds of some readers, but the abundant color photos will inspire the design instincts of others.
Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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'If you are to buy one book on grasses, this should be the one' - Gardens Illustrated; 'Combines inspiration with sound practical advice' - Gardening Which?
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good book on grasses with excellent illustrations.,
By bamboo@tiac.net (Westford, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ornamental Grasses (Hardcover)
This book offers a fine overview on grasses and is particulaly strong in the range and quality of the photos. If you have trouble choosing or identifying grasses from descriptions or line drawings this book will help enormously. My particular interest is the bamboos. There are photos of bamboos not often seen in this country (USA). The photos make the book a valuable addition to the books available on bamboo. But the text dealing with bamboo has many errors, surprising with an author with Roger Ground's experience. The book is published in this country by Timber Press and in the UK by David & Charles Publishers but is clearly a UK book reworked for the US market.
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Gardening is a broad river with many currents: besides the main streams of formality and informality there are the lesser currents of wild gardening and natural gardening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
little blue fescues, tiny spikelets, leaf mound, central variegation, tall moor grass, golden toupee, feathery awns, flowering culms, green panicles, blue sedges, blue lyme grass, arching mounds, running habit, variegated grasses, pyramidal panicles, flame grass, airy panicles, open panicles, true grasses, moor grasses, quaking grass, feather reed grass, flowering grasses, switch grasses, dense mounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Karl Foerster, Apple Court, North America, The Plantfinder's Guide, Wolfgang Oehme, Kurt Bluemel, Essential Coloured-leaf Grasses, Jacques Wirtz, Lesser Coloured-leaf Grasses, Piet Oudolf, South America, The Biology of Grasses, The Modern Grassery New!
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Gardening is a broad river with many currents: besides the main streams of formality and informality there are the lesser currents of wild gardening and natural gardening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
little blue fescues, tiny spikelets, leaf mound, central variegation, tall moor grass, golden toupee, feathery awns, flowering culms, green panicles, blue sedges, blue lyme grass, arching mounds, running habit, variegated grasses, pyramidal panicles, flame grass, airy panicles, open panicles, true grasses, moor grasses, quaking grass, feather reed grass, flowering grasses, switch grasses, dense mounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Karl Foerster, Apple Court, North America, The Plantfinder's Guide, Wolfgang Oehme, Kurt Bluemel, Essential Coloured-leaf Grasses, Jacques Wirtz, Lesser Coloured-leaf Grasses, Piet Oudolf, South America, The Biology of Grasses, The Modern Grassery New!
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