This author shares her extensive horticultural knowledge with all North American gardeners who face extremes of heat and cold yet yearn to grow the cottage gardens and formal mixed borders of gardeners in the British Isles. 25 drawings, 12 color photos.
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enlightening and detailed,
This review is from: Proper Garden (Hardcover)
Considering I live about ten miles away from the author and visited her garden with my club last summer, one might not think me a very objective critic. And regarding this book, I'm probably not. I found the book full of good information about the perennials that florish here in unpredictable zone 5, and great suggestions for beautiful color combinations. The book is really for avid gardeners who are interested in further studies of particular plants and their cultivars, and the experiences of a gardener/artist who treats the garden as her canvas. She is a bit of a garden snob, and if you are partial to cutsey planters and other garden fixtures, don't bother with this book.
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SOME YEARS AGO MY HUSBAND, George, and I decided that after many years of moving about, we wanted to settle down permanently. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mat formers, shady wall, rock garden plants, silver mound, border plants, perennial border, gray foliage, lavender blossoms, woods garden, blooming period Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Hortus Third, Alan Bloom, Asia Minor, Miss Jekyll, Lincoln Foster, Royal Horticultural Society, Animal Chaser, Graham Thomas, North America New!
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SOME YEARS AGO MY HUSBAND, George, and I decided that after many years of moving about, we wanted to settle down permanently. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mat formers, shady wall, rock garden plants, silver mound, border plants, perennial border, gray foliage, lavender blossoms, woods garden, blooming period Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Hortus Third, Alan Bloom, Asia Minor, Miss Jekyll, Lincoln Foster, Royal Horticultural Society, Animal Chaser, Graham Thomas, North America New!
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- Wall and Water Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll on page 73, and page 92
- Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton on page 215
- Now This (May Morrison Mysteries) by Nancy Star on page 175
- Foliage Plants: New and Revised Edition (Penguin Gardening) by Christopher Lloyd on page 161
- Lavender by Ellen Spector Platt in Back Matter
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