Captivating Combinations : Color and Style in the Garden

Winter, Norman

ISBN 10: 1934110930 / ISBN 13: 9781934110935

Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2009

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Captivating Combinations : Color and Style in the Garden
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934110930
• ISBN 13: 9781934110935
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.734 pounds

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Synopsis

In Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden, Norman Winter shows how to create dazzling landscapes based on colors, how to select for harmony, and how to create stunning contrasts. He takes the gardener through combinations of flowers, foliage, grasses, and herbs. He also guides acolytes to companion plantings for special theme gardens, such as cottage, tropical, butterfly and hummingbird, herb and edible, container, and even the new patriotic Victory Garden.

Featuring over 200 color photographs, Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden is filled with cutting-edge ideas for the savvy gardener working with superior varieties found at today's progressive garden centers. Winter, a revered garden guru, discovers the choicest selections for the savvy home landscaper. Some of these exotic and unusual flowers come from places such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, and the Mediterranean, but others are native plants.

Gardeners want to select varieties that not only provide the best value but also offer sizzle and performance within the style and conditions of a particular location. In his book, Winter explains how to transform a landscape into a the garden by combining plants with attention-getting beauty in mind.

About the Author

Known to many as the Southern Gardening Guru, Norman Winter is one of the most sought-after garden lecturers in the South and is a horticulture specialist at Mississippi State University Extension. His previous books are Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South (University Press of Mississippi), Mississippi Gardener's Guide, and Paradise Found: Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard, and he writes a weekly syndicated column on gardening.