Customer Reviews

Planting Companions

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Clive Nichols' sensual & seductive photographs in "Planting Companions" by Jill Billington, provide wonderful "eye candy" to tide one over a dreary winter. The photographs actually give a better idea about what could be successfully planted together than the author's prose. The book is seemingly geared for the novice gardener, but then, the author does not pretend to be writing for the garden professional or landscape designer. Instead, she has written a very readable book about form, texture, pattern, & suitable planting partners, along with some information about plant size & growth habits. It is a "trendy" book that encourages dreaming.

I love this book. There is a lot of information in it but the writing style is engaging and not overly technical. Also it covers topics that I had not read much about elsewhere. Not to mention hundreds of high quality pictures of plant combinations. It does *not* have the often-followed format of an intro followed by alphabetical plant listings. I've gardened for about 7 years and have read a lot of garden-related books. This has much much more garden design info than most.

The book is very infomative
NEVER NEVER ORDER IT FROM THE BOOKWORM.
They NEVER return emails and I still have not received the book, although they have charged my mastercard accnt.