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Title: Flowers for All Seasons : A Guide to Colorful Trees, Shrubs and Vines
Publisher: Rodale Press, Incorporated
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0878577262
ISBN 13: 9780878577262
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Good
Weight: 2.13 pounds

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Features landscaping tips, a month-to-month guide to flowering plants, and charts highlighting more than three hundred colorful plants

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This companion volume to The Perennial Garden comprises an artful guide to ornamental garden design and maintenance. Here the authors focus on "woody perennial flowerstrees, shrubs, and vines that may be evergreen or deciduous, but whose woody stems, branches and trunks . . . are the skeletal structure on which nature hangs her annual, fresh green growth." Strategies for implementing a thematically cohesive yet unstylized landscape include plant selection and placement (the balanced juxtaposition of oppositesin texture, size, shape and color; the unifying pairing of similar foliage types; the dramatic use of distinctive shrubs at transitional junctions; working with existing land forms and indigenous vegetation) and "artistic" maintenance or pruning. Integral here are more than 120 pages of growth charts "designed to simplify the task of selecting plants"; "featured flowers of the month" (e.g., April, the crabapple); a hardiness-zone map; a common-name index; and a listing of mail-order sources. Extensive black-and-white illustrations supplement the text, while 79 color photographs vividly depict the "natural movements and rhythms of plants" that the gardener is encouraged to highlight.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This attractive guide to garden design by the co-authors of The Perennial Garden ( LJ 9/15/85) features the warm colors and eye-pleasing shapes of "woody perennials"trees, shrubs, and vines. Five chapters describe the use and arrangement of these plants in all climates to provide year-round color and interest in gardens and yards. Combining practical instructions on selection and cultivation with beautiful color photos and illustrations, the book balances aesthetic considerations with useful details on garden maintenance. Appendixes include a "zone hardiness" map, common name index, and mail-order sources for plants. Pamela R. Daubenspeck, Warren-Trumbull Cty. P.L., Warren, Ohio
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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