Dream Plants for the Natural Garden

Dream Plants: Over 1200 beautiful and reliable plants for a natural garden is a beautiful well designed book intended to list plants that World Famous Garden Designers Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen have found to be reliable in their gardens. The brief introduction and preface set the stage for a potpourri of plants from “tough perennials” to “playful” to Troublesome.” There comes a list of 1200 plants that these two world famous garden designers have selected as useful, reliable, sturdy, and mostly low maintenance in the many gardens they have designed. The few words are a good read. The 250 plus pictures of flowers are marvelously beautiful and details. The descriptions give zone, sun/shade preference, height and width, comments and some useful growing hints. The index appears complete. With the organization of this book, you can start with your problem area find plants to fit in most cases. They do not cover wetlands, or trees or large shrubs. Recognizing that this book is intended for world wide audiences, the selections are at times a little strange, but their choices are well explained. Many of the plants are simple basic common. Many of the plants are unusual. In many cases the exact cultivar the authors used is listed with alternatives. Many of the plants we can only dream of as they are not in our zone or range. But the selections for even Zone 3 are plentiful and well done. Is this the end all book on plant selection? No! However, this is a very useful, beautiful reference book with which to research plants you find in you local nurseries and stores and with to dream of gardens far away.. A local guide is still very necessary, whether a guide book, or a local plant expert. A good book to have in any gardener's library.

Consegna come sempre per Amazon rapidissima. Il libro è esattamente come mi aspettavo: presenta molte fotografie di prati e giardini non convenzionali, con inserimento di piante a volte inusuali ma con effetti estetici più che gradevoli. Adatto a chi ama i giardini con piante spontanee e poco impostati, con molte e varie idee; libro da ammirare, consultare e sfogliare più e più volte per apprezzarne a pieno potenzialità e sfumature. Great.

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Excellent book with the preferred varieries of Piet OUDOlf. A great help to select the correct plants in the correct place for natural planting.

Great book, lovely imagery, lots of dreaming to be done here.