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Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start (Rodale Garden Book)

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Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start (Rodale Garden Book)

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By: C. Colston Burrell

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Perennial Combinations features plant medleys that bring color, texture, and excitement to the garden in every season. The book features 130 of the best pernnial combinations with photographs of each grouping, along with a numbered photo key and plant list. Each grouping features just two to six plants; gardeners can plant the combinations as they appear for small garden spaces or they can repeat or mix the combinations for large beds and landscapes. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new chapter of plant combinations featuring today's big, dramatic perennials, backyard gardeners will find the best choices to accent wide open spaces, marry slopes and high foundations, and make an impact on the landscape with impressive and showy plants. From tall plumes to bold foliage, many of these plant combinations create a living privacy screen and offer a bounty of bloom for those looking to make an "architectural" statement in their perennial beds. Plant cultivar names have been updated throughout the book so gardeners can choose perennials that are readily available at local nurseries.

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Publisher: Rodale Books
Pub. Date: 19th February 2008
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 384
Ean: 9781594868535
Isbn: 1594868530

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Superior in every way
~ Written on Sep 8, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

This book is amazing!! It has everything you need - and then some! In addition to a complete encyclopedia of plants, it has diagrams for different types of gardens. It's also very well cross-referenced.

Tips and secrets from a Master Gardener.
~ Written on May 10, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

Master gardener Burrell gives his tips and secrets on growing perennials from one year to another in fabulous combinations in this book. A mind of infomation is delivered. Two editions of this book have evolved and the latest one gives a wealth of info on a special chapter of 'Combinations for Dramatic Effect'.
Well recommended, a great read for the adventurous perennial gardeners among us. Thank goodness he gives us the botanical names of the plants, not just American common names.

An amazing reference guide for landscape design
~ Written on Oct 2, 2008. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

If you've ever drooled over perfectly arranged landscapes designed with fabulous color combinations, texture, and an array of plants all sizes and shapes who's colors are pleasing to the eye, this book is your tool. There are many garden companies that offer pre-designed gardens, but they're expensive and sometimes have plants that you just don't care for. This book gives you ideas, plans, tips on how to combine plants in such a way that it looks like a professional landscaper came and did all the work. Every design is wonderful, the photography is superb and the gardens are beautiful. A real asset for anyone who wants to have a beautiful garden without paying a designer/landscaper to do it for you. A great book.

a huge help for one new to gardening
~ Written on Sep 21, 2007. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

Being pretty new to perennials but having read many books I was having sort of a writers block when it came to WHAT to put in my new garden.

I knew all about HOW but with so many choices I was overwhelmed!

This book has a good number of templates to give you a jump start and many outstanding photos of combinations of flowers that work together. In fact this has some of the best photos I have ever seen in a garden book.

It also covers difficult situations like what works in Heavy Clay and wet sites an so forth.

My plan was a butterfly garden and they had the perfect template for a 12x8 garden.

Excellent book for beginners or people that are looking for new combinations!! My fav book so far. (out of the 30 I have looked at).

Decent book, lousy photos
~ Written on Apr 24, 2007. 13 out of 13 users found this review helpful.

One of the drawbacks of buying gardening books online is that you can't see the photos. If I had thumbed through this book I don't think I would have purchased it. Not that it doesn't have a lot of good information and ideas. It's just that the photos are, for the most part, awful. The color is garish and over-saturated and the images actually look blurry. Also, many of the plant combo photos are very close up, which doesn't help when you are trying to figure out how to place your perennials when planting. For me, a good gardening book has to not only give useful information and how-tos (which this book does for the most part), but it has to inspire with lovely photos! And that is where this book fails.

Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start (Rodale Garden Book)

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