Designer Plants (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

The latest trend in garden design is to take the inside outside and to treat the garden as another room, using key plants to achieve volume, form, and drama. Designer plants have a strong architectural shape; they may also have very striking foliage or provide an accent color. They are necessary to make up the skeleton of the garden, giving it cohesion and style.

This exciting new book explores the roles of these invaluable plants and looks at the ways in which they bring shape and life into many types of gardens including:
-- Classical Italian gardens
-- Coastal and cottage gardens
-- Mediterranean and Japanese gardens
-- Wild, jungle, and woodland gardens

This invaluable guide is full of inspirational ideas and helpful hints on how to create horizontals and verticals, how to shape and sculpt with plants, and how to exploit color and texture for maximum effect.