A hands-on guide to growing perennials with an easy-to-use chart of details on culture, bloom color, and use for over 300 plants. Includes keys for successful perennial gardening, creating a garden that blooms in all seasons, turning any property into a living work of art, and more.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
The authors say their book is for American gardeners who want maximum effect for minimum effort, yet discuss such things as double- and triple-digging the soil. The reader could glean the information to create a nice perennial flower gardenbut not an instant garden. The color photos included with the review galley are inspirational. Chapters cover design and planning, maintenance, and major perennial plants. There are some unusual ideas concerning color, music, and creating a symphony in the garden. There are lots of charts. A good planting guide, containing all the usual information, lists plants by genus name with the nice touch of a pronunciation guide. Recommended for organic gardening collections; landscape artists should also find it useful. Carole Ledford, Georgia Experiment Station Lib., Experiment
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
For the first eight years of my life, I was a suburban kid in Manhasset, New York. Then we moved to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania where I learned to hunt, fish, eat wild foods, and swim in pristine waters of spring-fed creeks. Then I lived in Manhattan. So I'm at home just about anywhere. My experiences in the country, though, were the most important, leading me through newspaper and magazine work to Organic Gardening magazine, where I developed a love of gardening and landscaping. Now I'm a wine writer for many magazines and the restaurant reviewer for Northern California's newspaper of record, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, here in the heart of the Wine Country. I'm also a contributing editor to The Wine News and Horticulture magazines. I've written 18 books on food, wine, and gardening,--many of which are available on Amazon.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Every gardener should study these color and design theories,
By
This review is from: The Perennial Garden: Color Harmonies Through the Seasons (Paperback)
This book has a lot of useful things to say about color and garden design. Some of the color theories presented are flaky and esoteric (such as detailed color-emotion link tables, and matching hues to musical notes and making a literal "color harmony"), but the reader is free to learn and choose from many color and design theories. Since garden design is a subjective art, I can reject the need to use, say, the "golden section" in a given design, yet believe that it's a good idea to consciously consider it.
The book also has about 150 pages of information on specific perennials, by genus, and chapters on matters such as building up soil, and building paths - wasted pages if you already have a good basic library. For me, the book's best feature is its 80 well-annotated color plates, arranged by season, showing either a medium close-up of 2 or 3 plants or a broader landscape view. It always inspires and humbles me.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great book,
By
This review is from: The Perennial Garden: Color Harmonies Through the Seasons (Paperback)
This book has been really helpful especially giving information regarding color schemes in monocrome with different blooming cycles . A must for gardners!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favorites!,
By Mr. Happy (Delawhere) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Perennial Garden: Color Harmonies Through the Seasons (Paperback)
I love this book, but my favorite section deals with soil amendment, and describes double digging in some detail. It took a long time and a lot of work, but I finally got my garden's soil to the point where, as the authors describe, I could literally shove my clenched fist into it.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
When the dinosaurs shrieked in the primordial night, and the world's highest law was to eat or be eaten, there were no flowers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drained soil fall, soil other year, drained soil seed, soil division, polyantha hybrids, other cultivars, soil cuttings, hardy ageratum, soil flowering, partial shade, color associations, perennial plantings, bulb foliage, foliage contrast, golden yellow flowers, deep blue flowers, decorative types, blue spires, color harmonies, perennial garden, stiff stems, soil year, ferny foliage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Perennial Genera-Continued, United States, Golden Section, Planning the Flower Garden, Understanding Color Harmonies, North American, Sir John Thouron, Blue Deep, Blue Intense, July Photo, New England, Rocky Mountain, White Large, Candle Delphinium, Department of Agriculture, Meadow Rue, Pacific Coast, Perennial Flowering Bulbs, Perennial Plant Association New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
When the dinosaurs shrieked in the primordial night, and the world's highest law was to eat or be eaten, there were no flowers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drained soil fall, soil other year, drained soil seed, soil division, polyantha hybrids, other cultivars, soil cuttings, hardy ageratum, soil flowering, partial shade, color associations, perennial plantings, bulb foliage, foliage contrast, golden yellow flowers, deep blue flowers, decorative types, blue spires, color harmonies, perennial garden, stiff stems, soil year, ferny foliage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Perennial Genera-Continued, United States, Golden Section, Planning the Flower Garden, Understanding Color Harmonies, North American, Sir John Thouron, Blue Deep, Blue Intense, July Photo, New England, Rocky Mountain, White Large, Candle Delphinium, Department of Agriculture, Meadow Rue, Pacific Coast, Perennial Flowering Bulbs, Perennial Plant Association New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 5
books:
5
books
cite this book:
- Bambi by Disney on page 292
- The Red Fox by Stephen Harris on page 292
- Prairie fire by Kent White on page 270
- Blue Moon by Julia Green on page 45
- Baby Blue (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Julia Green on page 44
- Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening by Roger Holmes in Back Matter
- Midwest Gardens by Pamela Wolfe in Back Matter
- Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening and Landscaping Techniques by Rodale Press Inc. Editors in Back Matter
- The Indiana Gardener's Guide: Revised Edition (Gardener's Guides) by Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp in Back Matter
- Indiana Gardener's Guide by Tom Tyler in Back Matter
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
|
|
