The Creative Gardener's Guide to Blues and Purples by David Squire PDF

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The Creative Gardener's Guide to Blues and Purples by David Squire PDF

The main section of this Creative Gardener's Guide consists of five chapters, detailing blue and purple plants in a wide range of garden settings: filling annual and herbaceous borders , adorning rock and naturalized gardens, bringing colour to window-boxes hanging baskets, troughs and other containers on patios and terraces, clothing bare walls, climbing trellises or serving as a harmonious framework to knit together the various elements of your garden design, Each plant is illustrated In full colour and clearly described, including its botanical and common names, height and spread (in metric and Imperial units), cultivation and propagation. Within each chapter the plants are arranged alphabetically according to their botanical names. At the base of each page there are valuable tips on using combinations of plants to create colour-contrasts, subtle harmonies, focal points and interesting shapes and patterns. Flowers suitable for home decoration are also mentioned.

At the end of the book there are two comprehensive indexes. The first lists all common names, indicating if they are used in the British Isles or the United States. The second index is of botanical names, Including synonyms (alternative names). The Inclusion 01 the latter helps you identify plants botanists have recently re-cIassified and given new names, which are frequently sold under their old, better-known names.

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