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The RHS Book of Planting Schemes (Hardcover)

by The Royal Horticultural Society (Author), Geoff Stebbings (Editor)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd (29 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840910534
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840910537
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 95,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #22 in  Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Encyclopedias > Royal Horticultural Society
    #93 in  Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Design & Planning

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Amazon.co.uk Review

According to Geoff Stebbings: "Creating a planting scheme is like creating a picture." ... With so many colours and materials to use, where do you begin? Gardeners the world over, beginners and the more experienced alike, are forever faced with this question but all must agree that before deciding on a planting scheme, thought must be given to the final effect, be it seasonal borders, particular colour schemes, specific plant collections, etc etc. Are you still wondering? Then this wonderful book is certainly the choice for you. It contains more than 60 planting formats to suit every garden, from sunny alpine beds to cottage planting for dry stone walls, to wildlife pools and bogs, to butterfly borders ... the list is endless and excitingly varied. Each scheme is accompanied by very clear, colour illustrations and the planting list for each plan is supported by a comprehensive plant directory for each plant. Particularly helpful is information on alternative plantings for many of the schemes so that easy adaptations can be made. The book, aimed at beginners and experienced gardeners, has been put together by a team of leading gardeners and garden designers and the general editor, Geoff Stebbings, is a freelance journalist and garden writer. --Susan Naylor


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Designing a planting scheme is a complex task, especially for beginners. This book takes the effort out of planting design by presenting over 60 planting schemes for all situations and gardens, soils, and colour schemes.

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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars clear, complete planting for every part of your garden/pond, 9 Oct 2000
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Plans, illustrations and very detailed designer plantings for beds, banks, pond, and meadow with clear concise narrative for just about every part of your garden large or small. As usual an excellent publication from the RHS at a competitive price !
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35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Slightly disapponting!, 5 Feb 2003
By Rik Pennington (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
On opening this book you are confronted by some excellent photographs of the kind of planting schemes we would all love to have in our own gardens. Unfortunately none of these actually feature in the book and what is there is very traditional. The illustrations are very detailed and clear, but there is no indication of how many plants you need to recreate the schemes, how far apart to plant them or even when to plant them. I would say you have to be quite experienced to benefit fully from what is basically a series of colour illustrations with the plants named.

Having said all of that there are enough different schemes to fire the imagination and it is useful to see how different plants combine together. I just feel that there could have been more instruction on the actual planting.

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