Product Description

The highlight of most gardens is the flowerbed, or border. This comprehensive guide combines creativity with practicality for gardeners of all skill levels. Talented gardeners share their insights and experiences on all aspects of planting beds & borders: Design Strategies; Selecting the Best Plants; Laying Out and Building; Fine Gardening Design Guides: a new series from one of the most popular international gardening journals offer a distinctive combination of practicality and inspiration, showing how state of the art garden design is done on the other side of the Atlantic. Full colour paperback, with over 155 full colour photographs, design artwork, sidebars, charts, plant lists and photo features provide step-by-step details of every process. New trends and new ideas from America: packed with contributions drawing on the experience and recommendations from fifteen of America's most talented gardening experts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #624713 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

A useful collection
Beds and borders are the heart of most gardens and finding new ideas for creating and improving them is always a treat. In this book Taunton Press has collected more than twenty of the best articles on the topic from its “Fine Gardening” magazine. They deal with issues such as design strategies, plants, techniques, and there is a special section on problem solving. Each article has a tiny photo and very brief bio of the writer so you get a sense of their background.

The illustrations in these books, as in most Taunton books, are just gorgeous and the individual topics are well chosen. My favourite was “Lacing the Border with Beauty” which showed ways to lighten the border with lacy foliage and delicate flowers. The writer came up with ideas I’m dying to try, along with a list of lacy garden plants.

Each article has a fresh approach, new ideas to solve problems such as a hot climate, wet soil, rocky soil and techniques for choosing and planting shrubs, perennials and annuals.

The pleasure of books of collected articles is that you get a taste of many approaches without having to wade through thousands of words from any one writer, This lightness of touch, together with the careful selection of articles and first class illustrations make this book a delight.