- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Timber Press (OR) (17 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0881924938
- ISBN-13: 978-0881924930
- Product Dimensions: 27 x 23.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,233,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gardeners are moving away from tidy borders and neat velvet lawns to more expressive areas of plants grown within a natural movement of design. Who better to explain how to do this than the Dutch international garden designers, Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf. Dream Plants for the Natural Garden suggests 1,200 plant species which they consider practical for the average garden. Each is give its Latin and common name with a brief description and notes of favourable conditions and flowering period.
The book covers perennials, bulbs, grasses, ferns and small shrubs, all of which the authors believe will continue growing, flowering and seeding for many years There are three main sections covering tough (perennials, grasses, ferns, bulbs and shrubs), playful (self-seeding perennials, biennials and annuals) and troublesome plants (invasive, capricious and demanding), explaining how to deal with them. Piet Oudolf has nurseries near Arnheim where he is practised in choosing plants that are easy to maintain and mainly disease resistant. Both he and Henk Gerritsen took many of the photographs that illustrate the text.
Dream Plants for the Natural Garden is an ideal reference book. Use some of the ideas to enliven your own garden or create an imaginative new one. --Judy Wyles --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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... a thorough knowledge of the ways of plants, an upbeat but realistic tone, and a lively and forthright writing style should commend this book to anyone with a thoughtful gardener to please (Independent )
... the plants themselves are excellent and well known to the authors who pass on their thorough and amusing cultivation notes alongside glamorous colour photographs (Times )
... an invaluable directory of hardy plants for anyone considering new-style naturalistic planting (Country Living ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
... the plants themselves are excellent and well known to the authors who pass on their thorough and amusing cultivation notes alongside glamorous colour photographs (Times )
... an invaluable directory of hardy plants for anyone considering new-style naturalistic planting (Country Living ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Dream Plants for the Natural Garden describes 1,200 plant species selected from the practical perspective of natural gardens. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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75 of 75 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you only want one book on herbaceous perrenials, buy this,
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This review is from: Dream Plants for the Natural Garden (Gardener's Guide Series) (Hardcover)
Quite simply the most useful book on herbaceous plants you will ever need. By grouping the plants by how they behave in your garden Oudolf and Gerritsen have taken all the guesswork out of herbaceous planting. Clear plates, teamed with the author's concentration on only the best varieties of each species help to choose the most appropriate plants. As a professional garden designer I have taken to keeping a copy of the book in my car, and referring to their classifications before buying. This practical advice teamed with Europe's most respected plantsmen's own personal tastes has led me to use plants I had never heard of. Such simple descriptions as "Grows anywhere and is always beautiful, use it" can only inspire. Their advice is so good that you ignore it at your peril, I recently bought some Thalictrum that they specifically warned against as they fall over, I bought some anyway, and watched them grow, start to flower and fall over.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
DON'T BELIEVE ALL YOU READ...,
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This review is from: Dream Plants for the Natural Garden (Hardcover)
Mine is a densely planted, fully landscaped 5 acre garden which I started from scratch, single-handed, 23 years ago. I still manage it single-handed at 78, apart from a little help with the mile of hedge and 6 miles of lawn edge. This garden, and 27 years of previous gardens, are my credentials for reviewing gardening books.
This is a lovely book, written in a light, easy-readable style, with a pleasant wit, and generously and nicely illustrated. A pleasure to own, in fact, and an enjoyable bedtime read. However, despite their vast experience and unquestionable standing in the world of professional horticulture, the authors make blunt generalised statements about individual plants which are patently untrue, for example, recommending plants which in my garden have proved almost ineradicable pests on a par with Aegopodium (so much for "Dream Plants"), condemning as ungrowable others which flourish here without any help from me whatsoever, and making unwarranted declarations about soil requirements in individual cases. But many other gardening writers fall into the same trap. Buy the book by all means, but find out for yourself what does and does not grow for you. (Although do find out your soil's pH for the really obvious cases) The authors condemn the use of weedkillers. The only problem with weedkillers is improper use, and without such aids, I would have no garden to comfort my old age.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Dream Plants for the Natural Garden,
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This review is from: Dream Plants for the Natural Garden (Hardcover)
This book is a must for all gardening enthusiasts! It is very easy to access with lovely photographs and with a nice vein of humour running through it. Since receiving it a few weeks ago, I have opened it more times than any other gardening book to check if plants are suitable for my garden, especially now as I am re-vamping a border to stock with cottage garden plants. Would make super Christmas present for keen amateur gardeners.
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