Gardeners, plant collectors, horticulturists, and landscape designers will find a valuable resource in this carefully selected plant directory of best performing winter-flowering shrubs. Readers will find daphnes, viburnums, witch hazels, and camellias to suit every taste and garden situation, as well as information about how to help their choice winter-flowering shrubs flourish from November to March. Tips on combining winter-flowering shrubs, using winter sunlight to backlight choice specimens, and getting the right balance of complementary plants complete this practical and inspiring guide. Whether looking to extend a plant collection or create a winter garden, collectors and gardeners alike will delight in the possibilities available for blooms and scents in colder climates.
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Having gained expertise working in England, Buffin possesses an intimate knowledge of the surprisingly subtle yet magical displays that characterize gardens in wintertime. Such a sophisticated perspective illuminates the book's introductory chapters, showing gardeners how they might design plantings for dramatic effects with textured bark and glowing thorns, evergreen profiles, luminous bamboo culms, or ornamental grasses with persistent, showy plumes. Buffin addresses hardiness zones as well as bloom times for areas of the U.S. in a richly descriptive, encyclopedic listing of shrubs that flower in winter. Experienced and novice green thumbs with winter in mind can dip into entries spanning abeliophyllum to viburnum and be well-advised on a fascinating range of popular and lesser-known species and recommended cultivars. The cultivation tips accompanying entries will inspire, inform, and prepare gardeners looking for exceptional specimens to incorporate all-year-round interest. Alice Joyce
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"This would make a wonderful gift book for any gardener with the winter blues."
—Marianne Binetti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 19, 2006
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer )
"Every garden can benefit from the element of surprise provided by the plants described here."
–Rob Cassy, The Bookseller, Fall 2005 (The Bookseller )
"The sweet smell of daphnes and witch hazels nearly drifts off the pages ... this book reminds us how lucky we are to garden in a climate where we can have some plant or another in bloom every day of the year."
—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, September 16, 2005 (Seattle Times )
"Buffin possesses an intimate knowledge of the surprisingly subtle yet magical displays that characterize gardens in wintertime. The cultivation tips accompanying entries will inspire, inform, and prepare gardeners looking for exceptional specimens to incorporate all-year-round interest."
—Alice Joyce, Booklist, September 1, 2005 (Booklist )
—Marianne Binetti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 19, 2006
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer )
"Every garden can benefit from the element of surprise provided by the plants described here."
–Rob Cassy, The Bookseller, Fall 2005 (The Bookseller )
"The sweet smell of daphnes and witch hazels nearly drifts off the pages ... this book reminds us how lucky we are to garden in a climate where we can have some plant or another in bloom every day of the year."
—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, September 16, 2005 (Seattle Times )
"Buffin possesses an intimate knowledge of the surprisingly subtle yet magical displays that characterize gardens in wintertime. The cultivation tips accompanying entries will inspire, inform, and prepare gardeners looking for exceptional specimens to incorporate all-year-round interest."
—Alice Joyce, Booklist, September 1, 2005 (Booklist )
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Many of us may already have winter plants in our gardens, and we may also feel that a good winter-flowering shrub may enliven our winter landscape, but all too often this is the only type of winter plant we focus on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
camellia flower blight, exceptional autumn colour, shallow chalk soils, hybrid witch hazels, yellow autumn colour, oso berry, vernal witch hazel, suckering stems, winter gardening, good autumn colour, stem colour, delightful species, general planting, spiny foliage, architectural foliage, winter box, hardy form, suckering habit, pure white flowers, flowering period, flaking bark, paperbark maple, winter planting, composted bark, left unpruned Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hillier Nurseries, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, North Carolina, The Netherlands, Arnold Arboretum, Roy Lancaster, Royal Botanic Gardens, New Zealand, North America, Savill Gardens, Camellia Forest Nursery, Gulf Stream, Kalmthout Arboretum, Cultivation Tips All, Garden Wisley, North Wales, Tony Schilling, Wakehurst Place, West Sussex, Borde Hill, Exbury Gardens, National Arboretum, New York, Raulston Arboretum, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh New!
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Many of us may already have winter plants in our gardens, and we may also feel that a good winter-flowering shrub may enliven our winter landscape, but all too often this is the only type of winter plant we focus on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
camellia flower blight, exceptional autumn colour, shallow chalk soils, hybrid witch hazels, yellow autumn colour, oso berry, vernal witch hazel, suckering stems, winter gardening, good autumn colour, stem colour, delightful species, general planting, spiny foliage, architectural foliage, winter box, hardy form, suckering habit, pure white flowers, flowering period, flaking bark, paperbark maple, winter planting, composted bark, left unpruned Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hillier Nurseries, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, North Carolina, The Netherlands, Arnold Arboretum, Roy Lancaster, Royal Botanic Gardens, New Zealand, North America, Savill Gardens, Camellia Forest Nursery, Gulf Stream, Kalmthout Arboretum, Cultivation Tips All, Garden Wisley, North Wales, Tony Schilling, Wakehurst Place, West Sussex, Borde Hill, Exbury Gardens, National Arboretum, New York, Raulston Arboretum, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh New!
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- Color Your Garden: The Royal Horticultural Society (Rhs) by Jill Billington in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The World of Magnolias by Dorothy J. Callaway in Back Matter
- Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Their Identification, Ornamental Characters, Culture, Propagation and Uses) by Michael A. Dirr in Back Matter
- North American Landscape Trees by Arthur Lee Jacobson in Back Matter
- Autumn and Winter Colour in the Garden by Graham Clarke in Back Matter
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