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"Talk about a great combination! Cole Burrell's brilliant design talent blends with his extensive experience as a gardener and a plantsman to make this book both visually dynamic and enormously informative. Not only are there numerous ideas for inspiring design combinations, but practical tips on soil, light, and maintenance requirements for the plants abound. This book should help every gardener-- from the beginner to the professional-- design gardens that look as good in the landscape as they do on paper."--Tracy DiSabato-Aust, author of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
Kurzbeschreibung
Each combination is featured in a stunning color photograph accompanied by a numbered photo key and plant list, so it's easy to find and buy exactly the right plants to re-create the combination in your own garden. Each combination features just two to six plants, so they're perfect for even the smallest garden space. You can plant each combination just as it appears in the book, or for a bigger color splash, just repeat the combination or mix it with others that are suited to the same conditions. You'll find combinations for stunning bloom from spring through fall; combinations especially suited to challenging sites like heavy clay soil or seaside gardens; and combinations just for fun, like fragrant combinations and combinations that attract butterflies.
C. Colston Burrell has lived and gardened in different climates across America, so he's made sure this book is useful to gardeners from California to Maine. He's also a professional garden designer, and he's applied his talents to create 22 original garden designs that feature the book's individual combinations. Plus every page includes his personal gardening wisdom, so you'll not only know which perennials to plant together, you'll know how to maintain those perennials so your garden will look beautiful year after year.
Synopsis
Der Autor über sein Buch
Welcome to the world of perennials, and an easy and effective way to create beautiful gardens. I hope you will find PERENNIAL COMBINATIONS helpful and inspirational. I want to share with you a bit of my philosopy of garden design, and tell you how combinations can help you. For me, a garden has two goals. The first is to please me aesthetically and emotionally. I see the garden as a place of recreation-a place to be born anew each time I walk out my door. The garden is a place, an environment, not an object. Many people point to their garden, as something isolated and disconnected from the fabric of the landscape. I enter my garden before I leave my house by viewing it through the window. The moment I step from the door, I am surrounded by plants, the sound of birds, and the flutter of butterflies and other beneficial insects. My garden is alive. This is the second goal I mentioned earlier. I want my garden to be a safe haven for wildlife rather than a place devoid of nature.
How do perennial combinations figure in all of this? Its simple. Combinations are the building blocks of the garden, and they are arranged around garden spaces. It is important to have spaces for outdoor activities, such as patios and small lawns. What makes the garden nurturing is to wrap these areas in a blanket of trees, shrubs and perennials.
Combinations of plants that share the same growth requirements will be the most successful, and the lowest maintenance. Varied colors, forms and textures, put together a few plants at a time, help you to build a garden that is beautiful and successful. My book gives you hundreds of tips and techniques for creating these combinations. It also shows you how to link combinations together to make entire beds and borders that are enviromentally and aesthetically harmoniuos. As you gain confidence, you can personalize your garden. The greatest pleasure comes from creating a place that is true to who you are as the gardener. Your garden should be uniquely yours. Take the ideas in this book, copy them, and then put your own personal spin on them.
I hope you find a weath of inspiration as well as concrete ideas to help you create your own paradise, in both your back yard, and your front yard!
Good luck, and enjoy making a garden that is personal environmentally friendly and beautiful.
