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The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs

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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated

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The Well-Designed Mixed Garden is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants of all kinds (hence the "mixed garden" of the title), it reflects decades of professional experience and artistic innovation. As with her bestselling book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, master designer and plantswoman Tracy DiSabato-Aust provides not only inspiration but also scrupulously organized information on design and connoisseur plants --- all from original research dating back to her degree work in horticulture.

Her new offering is a master class of design fundamentals, with an emphasis on often-neglected topics, such as site evaluation, color theory, and planning for maintenance. It is also a gallery of detailed design plans that show how ideas are put onto paper and then translated into three dimensions. Lessons learned in its first two parts are strengthened in an "Encyclopedia of Plant Combinations"; each entry notes the design considerations at play and provides tips on how to keep the combination looking its best. And the lifetime care needs and unique design characteristics of featured plants are summarized in the useful charts and lists that conclude the book. The result is a nearly foolproof guide to every aspect of designing superior gardens with superior plants. With more than 250 color photos and illustrations, this book is as much a feast for the eyes as it will be a trusted reference for the library shelf.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 712
EAN: 9780881925593
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0881925594
Label: Timber Press, Incorporated
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 460
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Studio: Timber Press, Incorporated


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques
• Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start (Rodale Garden Book)
• 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants
• Creating Beds and Borders: Creative Ideas from America's Best Gardeners (Fine Gardening Design Guides)
• Making the Most of Shade: How to Plan, Plant, and Grow a Fabulous Garden that Lightens up the Shadows


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Excellent reference book for serious plant lovers -
This book is packed with good info. The size may seem intimidating at first, but if you take the time to read through it, you will be rewarded if you're looking for good design instruction with an artistic flair and ideas to make your landscaping unique. My only complaint in the beginning, and it's minor, was that the author regularly uses only the latin names for the plants, so if you're looking for info on a particular plant and you know only the common name, it may take some extra time to find it in the book. However, I have now learned the latin names of many plants I didn't know before. Great book for beginner, novice or beyond, if you're serious about good landscaping with perennials.

So good but so much -
The book is everything it promises to be - and more. So much more that it's a little overwhelming. It's a reference book of virtually academic proportions, in the form of a beautiful coffee table book. What makes that challenging is that for people who read predominately on the go, it is large and heavy, so not easily transported. Plus, it is not an at-a-glance type guide, one really has to commit to reading through it. The hardest thing for me is that the types of plants, shrubs and trees that are recommended are not illustrated - even by an outline as to shape, so one has to check further on each suggestion unless one already has an extensive repertoire of knowledge about each type of plant.

A Flower Gardener's Companion -
Comprehensive and very user friendly. A book every home flower gardner would want to have.

OK, but not as good as I thought it would be -
I've heard other gardeners talk about Tracy's books and what an inspiration they are, so I bought "The Well-Designed Mixed Garden" expecting to learn some GREAT ideas for my gardens. It has some good information on principles of design and how to work with color, texture, and so on. But I was disappointed at how weak and uninspiring the section is on plant combinations. She calls it an "encyclopedia of plant combinations," and the section is full of photos of flowers and plants she thinks are winning combinations. The combinations mostly have no real visual appeal, the photos (in that section) are plain, and it's a wasted section of the book. I think there was only one of these combinations that actually looked beautiful. Most of these photos were from her own garden, and perhaps she let her personal affection for her own gardens cloud her judgment on what to include.

I like the rest of the book, however, and her examples of garden designs in other parts of the book have good photos and design layout drawings that are quite useful.

Useful no matter what your garden needs -
This book is so helpful in figuring out how to mix flowers and plants in border-type gardens. It details color combinations and tells what flowers go well together. It provides pictures of various gardens in different season to provide an idea of how the landscape will look in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

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