Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations: Over 4000 Color and Planting Schemes | 
| Author: Tony Lord
Creator: Andrew Lawson
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
List Price: $59.95
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised and updated
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 1.6
ISBN: 1554073707
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9
EAN: 9781554073702
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A comprehensive and practical guide -- essential. Even the experienced gardener can be stumped when considering which plants to put where. Confidence in working with plant combinations can mean the difference between a mediocre garden and one that sings. The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations is the perfect tool to help gardeners create a stunning garden. Rich with inspiration and practical advice, the expanded and updated edition includes: - An 18-page analysis on combining plants according to location, soil, climate and seasons
- An 18-page analysis of planting styles, with instructions on how to re-create many of the combinations shown in the book -- perennials, meadow planting, matrix planting, grasses and more
- 12 pages on the leading innovators in combination planting, including Piet Oudolf, Penelope Hobhouse and Beth Chatto
- An additional 300 color photographs
- Garden designers' signature combinations -- and why they work
- An updated easy-to-use layout that features more prominent at-a-glance symbols and spotlights plant characteristics and cultivation requirements.
This comprehensive directory and cultivation guide provides 4,000 combinations for beautiful and successful plantings, with entries fully cross-referenced. With authoritative and imaginative text, superb photographs and thousands of planting combinations, the Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations is ideal for gardeners at all experience levels. (200309)
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 A valuable addition to your garden library June 29, 2008
Gang Chen (ArchiteG(dot)com)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As an award-winning author, photographer, horticultural consultant, and an adviser on gardens to Britain's National Trust, Tony Lord combines his talents with the exceptional photos taken by Andrew Lawson, an award-winning photographer in "Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations: Over 4000 Color and Planting Schemes."
"Every gardener wants to create the perfect garden. We all have a favorite plant - but it is not always easy to know what to plant beside it, or how to display it to its best advantage..." "Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations: Over 4000 Color and Planting Schemes" can help you solve the problem: it features over 1,000 individual plants and more than 4,000 combinations. It includes 8 chapters: The Art of Combining Plants, Great Planting Styles, Shrubs and Small Trees, Climbers, Roses, Perennials, Bulbs, and Annuals. It covers practical and useful information such as assessing the sites, choosing plants, scale and size, plant habit, form and texture, color in the garden, timing the season, planting beds and borders, woodland planting, meadow planting, naturalistic gardens, country style, cottage gardens, grasses, Mediterranean style, Minimalist styles, and great planting designer case studies.
"Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations: Over 4000 Color and Planting Schemes" has 464 pages and many beautiful interior color photos. It is a valuable addition to your garden library.
Gang Chen, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Author of "Planting Design Illustrated," "LEED GA Exam Guide," "Architectural Practice Simplified," and other books on various LEED exams, architecture, and landscape architecture
happy with my purchase July 12, 2009
S. Danforth (WI)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would definitely shop here again I am very happy with my purchases. They were in good shape and arrived fairly quickly.
 Unsuccesful work July 10, 2009
Alexandru Grajdan (South Europe)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There was an attempt to combine into one book all possible planting combinations - and it was a collapse. First 10-20 pages are quite useful for beginners , because the authors described some rules of planting and for making a border. For advanced gardener even these 20 pages don't give any new information.
I have a lot of books on gardening from all over the world , but I haven't met the book with such tasteless and primitive plant combinations. I have a feeling that all these combinations are accidental and were not created by the professionals.
If you are looking for the book with exquisite planting combinations, I would recommend RHS Perennials. This is the best book I ever had on perennials and it was supplemented with a lot of photos with combinations for your garden, really astonishing and inspiring.
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