Product Description

Award-winning author William Cullina’s beautifully illustrated book of “background” plants for North American gardens. With this new volume, Cullina completes the set of stunning books on native plants for the garden that includes Wildflowers and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines. All three books combine Cullina’s fresh and entertaining style with encyclopedic information about the plants and specific instructions on how to grow and propagate them. Cullina compares a garden made up of nothing but bright colors to the detergent shelves in a supermarket, where every package screams for attention. What makes a true garden out of a collection of flowering plants are the ferns, mosses, and grasses that are the verdant canvas on which nature paints its portraits. These are the plants, he says, that bring a level of refinement and sophistication to the garden unmatched by any flowers. Without these plants, nothing would hold the garden together. Cullina shares information that will make you see landscaping as never before.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #161444 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

About the Author
William Cullina, nursery manager and propagator at the Garden in the Woods, the famous showplace headquarters of the New England Wild Flower Society, has been passionate about plants since he was a child. He has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada, studying and photographing the plants in this book, most of which he has grown himself. His very wide interests include collecting orchids (one thousand miniature epiphytes), making wheel-thrown stoneware, and building furniture from wood he has cut and turned to lumber himself. He writes for the major gardening magazines and is in great demand as a speaker.