Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15112 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

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Burrell makes creating a backyard paradise foolproof and fun, in this lavish guide that's packed with no-nonsense advice and tips, garden plot plans, mail order sources, a Hardiness Zone Map, and even a color wheel. 300 color photos. 200 two-color illustrations.

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Customer Reviews

Recommended for Ideas and General Design Knowledge
Excellent resource for ideas. In addition to photographs of various perennial combinations, the author provides information about the plants, such as how to grow and maintain them, and what conditions they prefer. It's more than just a picture idea book. There's a good overview of garden design too, with advice on colour use and combining foliage and flowers.

Illustrated garden design book - great!
Book contains about 344 pages divided into three main sections. The sections are Basic Design (14 pages), Combinations (306 pages), and Mail Order Sources & Index (24 pages).

Each combination discussion (there are over 200) shows a garden photograph, a photo key, and several paragraphs of discussion. Each plant in the photograph is identified to species and variety. Great job!

The discussions reveal growing tricks and tips. The book is full of solid and easy to follow instructions.

This is an excellent book for generating garden design ideas for your own yard. Photographs are awesome (although some images appear to have the flower colors oversaturated - that's not the color they are in my yard :-)

It's my favorite garden design book so far. Very creative!

Something for Everyone!
I usually am hesitant to buy these types of books - because I live in a colder climate (zone 3-4) there are usually not many combinations, styles, etc. to choose from out of an "all inclusive" book. Not the case here! There were plenty of plans and ideas for all zones and everything was very comprehensive in drawings and text. Just within the first few minutes of looking at it I had several ideas for my yard. What's also nice is that it covers everything from small spaces that need just a few plants to fill in to large areas that need coverage. I will definately be referring to this book AND sharing this book for a long time to come!