Carol Klein's Favourite Plants brings Carol's first ever book (Plant Personalities originally published in 2004) back into print. It has an elegant new design and format but retains all that makes Carol's books so inspirational and treasured by her many fans.
In this irresistible book Carol Klein celebrates her favourite plants. Setting aside more conventional ways of classification, she urges the gardener to choose what they grow according to plant personalities, asserting that personality traits are as valuable as height, habit and flower colour when planning your planting.
For example, good-natured bread-and-butter plants contribute to the overall beauty of a garden for months, whereas shooting stars offer a brief but breath taking performance. Touchy-feely plants add rich sensuality in contrast to the dash of frivolity provided by wafty whisperers .
Illustrated with superb photographs by Jonathan Buckley, Carol Klein s Favourite Plants will inspire both new and experienced gardeners to see magic in every plant. The result will be a garden of subtlety and richness.
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'Carol Klein is known for her no-nonsense approach and inspires us to garden.'-- Gardens Illustrated
'...introduces a multitude of the most wonderful plants, grouping them by 'personality', and showing how they can be used to best effect. An absolute joy!' -- Good Book Guide --Gardens Illustrated
'...introduces a multitude of the most wonderful plants, grouping them by 'personality', and showing how they can be used to best effect. An absolute joy!' -- Good Book Guide --Gardens Illustrated
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Carol Klein is a much-loved author, television presenter and passionate plants-woman. She combines a career running a nursery in Devon with her role as a regular presenter of BBC Gardener's World. She has also been awarded six gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. Her four books for Mitchell Beazley, Grow Your Own Veg, Grow Your Own Fruit, Grow Your Own Veg Journal and Cook Your Own Veg have sold close to half a million copies and she's a regular contributor to Gardens Illustrated and Garden News. Her most recent book Life in a Cottage Garden was one of the bestselling gardening books of 2011. Jonathan Buckley is a specialist garden and flower photographer who has worked closely with Carol Klein for many years, photographing her garden at Glebe Cottage. He has also collaborated with Christopher Lloyd, Sarah Raven and Alan Titchmarsh. His recent book projects include Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers and Carol's Life in a Cottage Garden. The Garden Media Guild has awarded him Photographer of the Year, Features Photographer of the Year and Single Image of the Year.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I can totally understand the other reviewer's frustration on finding that this is not a brand-new book but a repackaging of an existing title, Carol Klein's first book Plant Personalities: Choosing and Growing Plants by Character. However, as someone who doesn't own a copy of the previous incarnation, I found this a very lovely book indeed.
Firstly, the production values are great. The binding is similarly substantial (though in yellow cloth this time) to the green spine of Life in a Cottage Garden. The paper is thick, the photos by Jonathan Buckley are as you'd expect very seductive and beautiful. (He also does all the images for Sarah Raven's books, and about the only criticism you could level is that he's slightly too interested for me in the very close-up plant portraits which don't always allow you to see the actual shape of the whole plant. Yet they make for a beautiful book.)
But of course the main delight is Carol's text. Chapter 1 Cinderella Plants covers a lot of spring beauties, such as snowdrops, primula and erythronium. Chapter 2, Bread and Butter Plants goes to the other end of the summer and looks at daisy family members like asters, rudbeckias and helenium, plus other Klein faves such as geraniums, euphorbias, echinops and achillea.
Chapter 2 "Shooting Stars" focuses on those plants with 'fleeting sparkle', like poppies, peonies and bearded irises. Chapter 4 'will of the wisps' turns to grasses and other moving, frondy beauties like thalictrum and nigella. More grasses in chapter 5 with 'Prickly customers', including verbascum and eryngium.... Read more ›
Firstly, the production values are great. The binding is similarly substantial (though in yellow cloth this time) to the green spine of Life in a Cottage Garden. The paper is thick, the photos by Jonathan Buckley are as you'd expect very seductive and beautiful. (He also does all the images for Sarah Raven's books, and about the only criticism you could level is that he's slightly too interested for me in the very close-up plant portraits which don't always allow you to see the actual shape of the whole plant. Yet they make for a beautiful book.)
But of course the main delight is Carol's text. Chapter 1 Cinderella Plants covers a lot of spring beauties, such as snowdrops, primula and erythronium. Chapter 2, Bread and Butter Plants goes to the other end of the summer and looks at daisy family members like asters, rudbeckias and helenium, plus other Klein faves such as geraniums, euphorbias, echinops and achillea.
Chapter 2 "Shooting Stars" focuses on those plants with 'fleeting sparkle', like poppies, peonies and bearded irises. Chapter 4 'will of the wisps' turns to grasses and other moving, frondy beauties like thalictrum and nigella. More grasses in chapter 5 with 'Prickly customers', including verbascum and eryngium.... Read more ›
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Mary
Format:Hardcover
I love Carol's effusive and effervescent writing style and was really pleased to discover she had written a new book. Alas, on closer inspection, this appears to be just a rejacketed (and possibly updated) version of her book Plant Personalities, originally published in 2004. It's a great read but do yourself a favour and snap up one of many secondhand copies available for just 1p + p&p on Marketplace.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Jasmine
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I can't believe how quickly I've read this book. You can hear Carol Klein talking as you read her words and her infectious enthusiasm bursts out from every page. The book is divided into chapters with titles such as 'Will-o'-the wisps and wafty whisperers', 'Cinderella plants' and 'Drama queens'.
The way she writes is like poetry sometimes, these are 2 bits that really jumped out at me...
'Pollination of some species peonies results in the formation of exciting fat seed pods which burst asunder to reveal, in the case of Paeonia mlokosewitschii, plump, orange seeds lying in canoes lined with red velvet.'
Just made me want to have one in my garden!
Then this...
'In full flower and seed Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Herbstzauber' (Autumn Magic) is a hilarious plant. Its massed heads waving upwards, each densely covered in fine hair, look like crowds of furry caterpillars which have climbed to the top of a blade of grass and are wondering where to go next.'
Which made me laugh!
Jonathan Buckley's photographs are amazing too.
The book is a re-print so talks about past Flower Shows and Carol's Nursery but this doesn't detract from the new edition at all.
The way she writes is like poetry sometimes, these are 2 bits that really jumped out at me...
'Pollination of some species peonies results in the formation of exciting fat seed pods which burst asunder to reveal, in the case of Paeonia mlokosewitschii, plump, orange seeds lying in canoes lined with red velvet.'
Just made me want to have one in my garden!
Then this...
'In full flower and seed Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Herbstzauber' (Autumn Magic) is a hilarious plant. Its massed heads waving upwards, each densely covered in fine hair, look like crowds of furry caterpillars which have climbed to the top of a blade of grass and are wondering where to go next.'
Which made me laugh!
Jonathan Buckley's photographs are amazing too.
The book is a re-print so talks about past Flower Shows and Carol's Nursery but this doesn't detract from the new edition at all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a great addition to my collection of gardening books and at a bargain price too.(Thank you Amazon) Carol Klein gives a very personal and detailed review of plants that she has grown at Glebe cottage, a great read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Scoobydoo
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a great book and beautifully photographed. I have picked out several plants that Carol loves and purchased them via the Internet since I can't find them in my local garden centre. A joy to read and I love Carol's enthusiasm for plants and gardening. Buy it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've always been a fan of Carol Klein as both TV presenter and author. This is a good, well illustrated read. It loses a star merely because it's a rehash of an earlier work and you may prefer to look for a second hand copy of that.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Binky
Format:Hardcover
If like me you're a keen beginner and know the overall effect you want to create in your garden, but are still learning about plants, then this is a really great book to choose. Dividing the plants into 'personalities' makes for a great introduction to them and gives valuable insight for planning a year-round garden. We recently bought a property with a rather bare garden and I've spent a lot of time and money trying to bring some colour into it, but reading this made me realise I've been planting 'Cinderellas' each season (truthfully . . . whatever I found at Homebase!) and that I was in need of some 'Bread and Butter' plants to balance everything out.
Other plant or garden design guides tend to assume a certain level of knowledge and to be honest can be a little overwhelming. This was just the book I needed to restore my enthusiasm and excitement and I've used it alongside my RHS Complete Gardener's Manual to come up with some exciting ideas for the garden -- and I can't wait to try them out!
I bought this for myself but it would also make a lovely gift as it's a really beautifully put together book with some gorgeous photos.
Other plant or garden design guides tend to assume a certain level of knowledge and to be honest can be a little overwhelming. This was just the book I needed to restore my enthusiasm and excitement and I've used it alongside my RHS Complete Gardener's Manual to come up with some exciting ideas for the garden -- and I can't wait to try them out!
I bought this for myself but it would also make a lovely gift as it's a really beautifully put together book with some gorgeous photos.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
ANOTHER GREAT BOOK BY CAROL KLEIN
ANOTHER GOOD BOOK BY CAROL KLEIN - SUPERB PHOTOS - SHE HAS A WONDERFUL WAY OF EXPRESSING HERSELF AND DRAWS YOU INTO HER FAVOURITE PLANTS.
Published 2 months ago by RICHARD LAST
2.0 out of 5 stars
Wrong Book
This book was returned, not the one ordered This has already been confirmed, and I have had the money returned.
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. J. Rogers
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good gardening book
Purchased this for a friend who is a keen gardener and she was delighted very informative.even for the amateur..
Recommend it
Recommend it
Published 3 months ago by Juliedawn
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read
You can hear Carol's voice extolling the virtues of her favourite plants. She writes as she speaks. Enthusiastically and with intimate knowledge of the plants she writes about. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hayley
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant choice of gift
I bought this book as a gift for my Mum to cheer her up, did the trick, she loves it.
Published 4 months ago by Kathleen Moughton
5.0 out of 5 stars
A good read
If you like her style and knowledge this book is a good fill in of her outlook on gardening. Not the first book to buy if you are a novice gardener, but a useful reference of this... Read more
Published 5 months ago by I. Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars
jillstead says.
Have actually bought this as part of a xmas present for my sister. I have several books by Carol Klein and always found them instuctiive and easy to understand for any gardener... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Bhillstead
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