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by Piet Oudolf (Author), Henk Gerritsen (Author) "Dream Plants for the Natural Garden describes 1,200 plant species selected from the practical perspective of natural gardens ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln; First Edition edition (5 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0711217378
  • ISBN-13: 978-0711217379
  • Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 23.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,388 in Books (See Bestsellers 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



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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 )

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you only want one book on herbaceous perrenials, buy this, 10 Jul 2001
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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.
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25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational, outstanding and thought provoking, 19 April 2001
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I had never really considered perennials to be such an important and rewarding part of the planting scheme before reading this book. Most of them seemed to be hard work in terms of effort repaid. This book helped to open my eyes to the possibilities of using perennials and the fact that they needn't be very demanding.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book, 19 May 2009
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Perfect introduction to perennial plants and natural gardening techniques. Lists of bomb proof plants. This book can save you a lot of money so you don't buy plants that die after the first year. It also gives you confidence to try new shapes, colours and forms. It writing style is concise and at time very entertaining.
Very inspiring.
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