Stephanie Cohen, Nancy J. Ondra

The Perennial Gardener's Design Primer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Turn your outdoor landscape into a rich, living canvas of color and texture. Encouraging experimentation, Stephanie Cohen and Nancy J. Ondra show you how to plan a garden that incorporates unique combinations of plants to achieve stunning effects. With an overview of garden design fundamentals and 20 sample garden plans, Cohen and Ondra will inspire you to play with creative juxtapositions of vibrant hues and subtle textures. Let your imagination run wild as you create your own unique and original garden designs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612122717
• Artikelnr.: 37945130

Autorenporträt

Nancy J. Ondra, author of Container Theme Gardens, is a garden writer and editor as well as the former owner and operator of a small rare-plant nursery. She is the author or co-author of a dozen gardening books, including Foliage (winner of the 2008 Book Award from the American Horticultural Society), The Perennial Gardener's Design Primer (winner of a 2006 Silver Award from the Garden Writers Association), Five-Plant Gardens, The Perennial Care Manual, Fallscaping, and Grasses. She currently gardens in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and blogs at www.hayefield.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Perennial Design Demystified
1 Getting Started
2 Selecting Your Perennials
3 Exploring Perennial Partners
4 From Dream to Reality
5 It's All in the Details
 
Part Two: Putting Perennials to Work
6 Problem-Solving with Perennials
7 Creative Color Effects
8 A Year of Perennials
9 Gardens for Special Effects
 
Part Three: From Theory to Practice
10 Building a Border from Scratch
11 Expanding an Existing Garden
12 Reworking an Old Garden
 
Appendix: USDA Hardiness Zone Map, Planning Chart, Recommended Reading,
Please Don't Eat the Delphiniums!, Acknowledgments, Photo and Garden Design
Credits
 
Index