Succession Planting for Year-round Pleasure
Editorial Reviews
Review
Rainy Side Gardeners : Packed with fresh ideas and practical advice for every season, Succession Planting contains all the information you need to create brilliantly successful year-round planting schemes.
Valerie Easton Seattle Times : From bedding out to self-seeders, Lloyd knows all the tricks of exclamation-point plantings.
Keith Wiley Garden (Peterborough) : For anyone wishing to keep their gardens alive with color for as long in the year as is humanly possible, this is a must-have book.
Suzanne Hively Cleveland Plain Dealer : [Lloyd's] wisdom is easily adapted to American homeowner's more modest gardens.
Chicago Tribune : A manifesto on how Lloyd combines plants to keep his garden borders glorious from April through October and through the winter... Take inspiration from Lloyd's vast experience and Jonathan Buckley's splendid photographs.
Verlyn Klinkenborg New York Times : This book's photographs, and the sense of time they embody, will make any gardener weep with gratification and envy.
Rainy Side Gardeners : Packed with fresh ideas and practical advice for every season, Succession Planting contains all the information you need to create brilliantly successful year-round planting schemes.
Nancy Brachey Charlotte Observer : Books by this esteemed English gardener are always welcome, and I think this new one is his best ever.
Design NJ : Lloyd gloriously combines all sorts of plants--bulbs to perennials, vines to big shrubs--with an eye toward increasing the longevity of a garden's appeal. In this book, he tells the hows and whys of his succession plantings.
Linda Cobb Spartanburg Herald-Journal : There are chapters on anchor plants, self-sower plants, climbers, and other fabulous plants that boost interest in your garden beds.
Jim Kemper Current Books on Gardening & Botany : The author writes in a lively, personal style that is quite engaging, and the photographs are, as you might expect in a garden book of this type, delightful to look at.
Book Description
Most gardeners want their borders to be interesting and colorful over a long season, even year-round if winters are not too severe. With this book, Christopher Lloyd shows how he chooses and orchestrates plants so that the borders always look their best. Once having covered the principles of succession planting, Lloyd explores the ingredients necessary to ensure continuously lively borders---from anchor plants and permanent perennials to drop-in plants and self-sowers. Packed with fresh ideas and practical advice for every season, Succession Planting contains all the information you need to create brilliantly successful year-round planting schemes.
Succession Planting for Year-round Pleasure
Succession Planting for Year-round Pleasure,Christopher Lloyd,Timber Press,0881927139,Garden Design,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Landscape,Landscape gardening,Ornamental Plants,Plants, Ornamental
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