Designer Plant Combinations

Designer Plant Combinations

Author: Scott Calhoun

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1603420045

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Turn your backyard garden into a lush and colorful wonderland where every plant is presented to its fullest potential. Scott Calhoun provides more than 100 stunning garden designs that are adaptable to a range of climates, budgets, and space considerations. As you learn to use proven groupings and discover ways to make your garden glow throughout all seasons, you’re sure to find the right combination of flowers, grasses, and ground coverings to transform your property into a jaw-dropping display of color, texture, and fragrance.


Perennial Combinations

Perennial Combinations

Author: C. Colston Burrell

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 1999-01-15

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780875968063

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Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden


Combining Plants

Combining Plants

Author: Time-Life Books

Publisher: Time Life Medical

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780737006360

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Step-by-step instructions and detailed diagrams and drawings guide readers to understanding color and texture relationships between different plants in order to create the exact ambience desired year-round. Photos.


Plant Combinations for an Abundant Garden

Plant Combinations for an Abundant Garden

Author: David Squire

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 809

ISBN-13: 1607656574

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• Concise, easy-to-use reference guide to garden design. • Packed with expert advice from leading cultivation specialists. • Step-by-step instructions, clear color photographs and illustrations, and DIY projects. • The latest National Gardening Survey shows continued growth in the $36.9 billion dollar DIY yard and garden industry. • Millennials comprised 5 of the 6 million new gardening households last year.


Landscape Design Combinations

Landscape Design Combinations

Author: Lee Miller

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-01-13

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781542444538

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Lee Miller's newest publication, "Landscape Combinations" provides the necessary tools to help you easily plan your garden, while offering a multitude of design plans with labeled photographs and detailed descriptions. Topics such as landscape design principles, color in design, the use of foliage, designing with deciduous and evergreen plants, planter combinations and landscape planning are discussed. Additional topics include designing with hardscape, with "quick and easy" landscape designs and garden styles throughout history, with colorful illustrations. The information presented is applicable to both novice or professional gardener alike, and is all based on Lee Miller's personal experience as a landscape designer for over twenty years. Lee Miller is also the author of "A Guide to Northeastern Gardening: Journeys of a Garden Designer", initially published in 2015.


The Less Is More Garden

The Less Is More Garden

Author: Susan Morrison

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2018-02-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 160469839X

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“Big ideas for your small garden.” —Garden Design When it comes to gardens, bigger isn’t always better, and The Less Is More Garden shows you how to take advantage of every square foot of space. Designer Susan Morrison offers savvy tips to match your landscape to your lifestyle, draws on years of experience to recommend smart plants with seasonal interest, and suggests hardscape materials to personalize your space. Inspiring photographs highlight a variety of inspiring small-space designs from around the country. With The Less Is More Garden, you’ll see how limited space can mean unlimited opportunities for gorgeous garden design.


Plant Partners

Plant Partners

Author: Jessica Walliser

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1635861330

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Companion planting has a long history of use by gardeners, but the explanation of why it works has been filled with folklore and conjecture. Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for this ever-popular growing technique, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden. Through an enhanced understanding of how plants interact with and influence each other, this guide suggests specific plant combinations that improve soil health and weed control, decrease pest damage, and increase biodiversity, resulting in real and measurable impacts in the garden.


Design-Your-Garden Toolkit

Design-Your-Garden Toolkit

Author: Michelle Gervais

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781612129228

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Before picking up the trowel, pick up the stickers! With 150 reusable illustrated stickers — representing dozens of plant cultivars that are versatile, readily available, and suitable for most temperate growing zones — plus a fold-out design board and a book teaching five easy steps of garden design, you’ll have everything you need to create your vision of the perfect garden. The durable cling stickers, with beautiful botanically accurate illustrations, can be layered, arranged, and rearranged to try out every variation before making any plant purchases. This book-and-kit combination makes it possible to create your dream border, bed, or backyard oasis without leaving your kitchen table!


The Creative Shrub Garden

The Creative Shrub Garden

Author: Andy McIndoe

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2014-07-29

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1604694343

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In The Creative Shrub Garden, author Andy McIndoe calls on his years of horticultural design experience to shine light on all of the innovative ways to stylishly work shrubs into your landscape. This is a new approach to planning your garden—by mood and style. Whether it’s an urban contemporary look, a cottage garden feel, or an uplifting an environment, The Creative Shrub Garden has a wealth of eye-catching combinations that bring new life to this classic plant.