Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses: Expert Plant Choices and Dramatic Combinations for Year-Round Gardens
There are hundreds of perennials and grasses available to gardeners — how can they know whether or not they're making the right choice? In Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses, Adrian Bloom distills his years of experience as a nurseryman and gardener into 250 reliable choices that are beautiful, easy to maintain, and provide year-round interest.
Detailed descriptions feature information on growth, care, and design tips for use in gardens of all sizes. Bloom shows the reader how to design and plant well structured borders that feature perennials and grasses with a mix of other plants playing supporting roles. He also shares his trademark "river of plants" design style that dramatically features the beauty of a plant throughout its life.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 208 pp.
- Book dimensions: 8½ x 10 in. (255 x 215 mm.)
- Images: 227 color photos
- ISBN-10: 088192931X
- ISBN-13: 9780881929317
Media reviews
"Adrian Bloom's enchanting Foggy Bottom garden provides brilliant backdrops for this encyclopedic guide to favored flowers and corduroy-leaved perennials, contrasted by finely textured, billowy grasses."
—Alice Joyce, Booklist
About the author
Adrian Bloom
Adrian Bloom is a nurseryman, gardener and writer, and president of the famous Blooms of Bressingham nursery in Norfolk, England.
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