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Choosing Plant Combinations: 501 beautiful ways to mix and match color and shape in the garden (Better Homes & Gardens) Hardcover – October 15, 1999

by Better Homes and Gardens Books (Author), Cathy Barash (Editor)

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This book does the homework for anyone who wants to create a beautiful garden but lacks the time to plan and design. It helps readers achieve maximum effect with minimum effort, with examples of combinations in the book for a bold or subdued look.

Gorgeous, full-color photographs of different plant combinations based on color and form.

Plant combinations shown give optimum effect using the aesthetics of color and formincluding single color, bold color, subtle color, similar form, subtle form, and bold form.

Suggests alternative plants that give the same look and add to the regional diversity of the plant material included.

Combinations are adaptable to all regions of America.

Includes complete cultural information and mail-order sources for every plant shown.

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264 pages
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English
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Better Homes and Gardens
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October 15, 1999
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9.25 x 0.75 x 10 inches
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0696210142
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978-0696210143
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For those gardeners intimidated by the thought of planning color symphonies, creating color echoes, or applying any color theory to the garden as a whole, Choosing Plant Combinations will come as a welcome relief. Granted, color is the single most important effect gardeners work with--nothing is more important to the first impression a garden gives and the emotional response it evokes. However, color can be a challenge to work with, as it depends greatly on surrounding colors, quality of light, and individual perception.

The author, Cathy Wilkinson Barash, describes her book as "a non-designer's garden design book." Her idea, and it is a good one, is that pleasing gardens are built combination by combination. You don't need an overall scheme, but rather dozens of workable combos of two or three plants that, seen as a whole, make up a garden. All plants are clearly identified in 250 full-color photographs that illustrate ideas for effective combinations. Barash also explores the role colored and variegated foliages, architecturally shaped plants, and ornamental grasses play in creating pleasing, long-lasting combinations.

While the book's design (graphically lively to the point of excess) itself is questionable, the photographs are nevertheless lovely and may inspire gardeners to experiment, loosen up, and help them to worry less about using color. Nothing can set a mood or enliven a garden more than the bold use of color and form, and Barash's new book provides plenty of ideas to encourage gardeners to do just that, one plant combination at a time. --Valerie Easton

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This sleek and attractive book creatively suggests ways to combine garden plants to make a distinctive statement in a home landscape. Experienced garden writer Barash (Edible Flowers: From Garden to Plate) emphasizes the use of color, shape, and texture for a successful garden design. Excellent color photos are used throughout to illustrate the use of these elements in the garden. Along with blocks of text, the photos help the reader make plant selections that will be successful in any garden. Occasionally, the color background for the text distracts from the photos, which are really the strength of this work. Get this useful guide to stimulate the imagination of your gardening readers. Recommended for public libraries.ADale Luchsinger, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll. Lib.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Publisher : Better Homes and Gardens; 1st edition (October 15, 1999)
Language : English
Hardcover : 264 pages
ISBN-10 : 0696210142
ISBN-13 : 978-0696210143
Item Weight : 2.69 pounds
Dimensions : 9.25 x 0.75 x 10 inches

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Very well done with great ideas al mundo! I am a long term gardener hence the moniker 'Digginthedirt" & have a pretty large library of gardening books. However, once in a while I still do order from this site - and the used books all arrive in great cond. This one is chock full of great ideas. & I'm going to move a few things around, or a lot as always happens, & will use many of these ideas this coming Spring. I would rate this book a 10 for the novice as well as addicts like myself. A gardener is never finished with his garden.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014

I adore this book. It is so inspiring with loads of great ideas. My copy is well worn.

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June Macdonald

Stunningly beautiful

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2000

If you're looking for inspiration, this is a gorgeous book. Packed with beautiful photos and unusual plant combinations.
I've been too busy drooling at the photos to read, but this is one of the most beautiful-to-look-at gardening books I've seen this year.
Ideal if you are trying to design around a colour scheme, or just want inspiration to get started.

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