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The Winter Garden: Create a Garden that Shines Through the Forgotten Season

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THE WINTER GARDEN: CREATE A GARDEN THAT SHINES THROUGH THE FORGOTTEN SEASON tells how to plan a garden with winter interest in mind. There are many, many gardening guides for summer and spring planting and some which advocate 'year round' gardening - but relatively few which narrow the focus to just winter. Val Bourne suggests trees, shrubs, berries and evergreens which include different textures, shapes, colors and early flowers for eye-catching displays, with color photos packing in examples. Gardeners will find this an inspirational guide which goes beyond the usual colorful flower focus to address other garden elements which can make a winter garden an appealing success.

A handsome and unique book from Cassell.

Hardback: cloth over boards with a sewn binding on heavy stock. 1.75 pounds. Color illustrations on every page. Indexed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Texture and Line
- texture and substance
- colourful stems
- twists and turns

Catching the Frost
- silhouettes and tracery
- plumes and spikes

Leafy Fillers
- spashes of colour
- rich bolts of green
- golden glimmers
- splashes of silver
- dark, dramatic foliage

Hips, Haws, and Berries
- touches of red
- berrying red
- fiery fruiting trees
- tempting rosehips

Structural Features
- the hard landscape
- finishing touches

Jewels Against the Bare Earth
- fresh flowers unfurl
- mid to late winter gems

The Flowering Canopy
- flowers on bare branches
- flowers set against leaf
- walls of flower