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Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden.
From the Author
All gardeners need a little inspiration now and then.
Welcome to the world of perennials, and an easy and effective way to create beautiful gardens. I hope you will find PERENNIAL COMBINATIONS helpful and inspirational. I want to share with you a bit of my philosopy of garden design, and tell you how combinations can help you. For me, a garden has two goals. The first is to please me aesthetically and emotionally. I see the garden as a place of recreation-a place to be born anew each time I walk out my door. The garden is a place, an environment, not an object. Many people point to their garden, as something isolated and disconnected from the fabric of the landscape. I enter my garden before I leave my house by viewing it through the window. The moment I step from the door, I am surrounded by plants, the sound of birds, and the flutter of butterflies and other beneficial insects. My garden is alive. This is the second goal I mentioned earlier. I want my garden to be a safe haven for wildlife rather than a place devoid of nature.
How do perennial combinations figure in all of this? Its simple. Combinations are the building blocks of the garden, and they are arranged around garden spaces. It is important to have spaces for outdoor activities, such as patios and small lawns. What makes the garden nurturing is to wrap these areas in a blanket of trees, shrubs and perennials.
Combinations of plants that share the same growth requirements will be the most successful, and the lowest maintenance. Varied colors, forms and textures, put together a few plants at a time, help you to build a garden that is beautiful and successful. My book gives you hundreds of tips and techniques for creating these combinations. It also shows you how to link combinations together to make entire beds and borders that are enviromentally and aesthetically harmoniuos. As you gain confidence, you can personalize your garden. The greatest pleasure comes from creating a place that is true to who you are as the gardener. Your garden should be uniquely yours. Take the ideas in this book, copy them, and then put your own personal spin on them.
I hope you find a weath of inspiration as well as concrete ideas to help you create your own paradise, in both your back yard, and your front yard!
Good luck, and enjoy making a garden that is personal environmentally friendly and beautiful.