The Nonstop Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs
Any book of gardening advice written by people more accustomed to working with soil instead of ink is worth a look.
Fine Gardening
The Nonstop Garden gives gardeners all the information they need to create a productive, beautiful garden from the ground up. This easy-to-use guide is split into four main parts: the nuts and bolts of designing a mixed garden, the garden's main attractions (trees and shrubs), the garden's supporting cast (bulbs, annuals, edibles, and vines), and finishing touches (ornamentation, containers, and garden structures). The Nonstop Garden also includes ten fail-safe design plans that can be incorporated into any garden. Gardeners can choose from a native garden, a scented garden, a gold-colored garden, a garden for wet sites, a vibrant-colored garden, a cool-colored garden, a winter garden, a shade garden, and a design plan for the daunting area known as the hellstrip.
By following Cohen and Benner's trusted advice and building a nonstop garden, you’ll have more creative planting options, a garden that provides year-round interest, and — most importantly — a yard that requires less maintenance than a traditional perennial border. Building a better, smarter garden has never been so much fun.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 248 pp.
- Book dimensions: 8½ x 10 in. (255 x 215 mm.)
- Images: 215 color photos; 10 color illustrations
- ISBN-10: 0881929514
- ISBN-13: 9780881929515
Media reviews
"Any book of gardening advice written by people more accustomed to working with soil instead of ink is worth a look. ... Add in a bunch of handy planting plans and some smart maintenance advice, and you've got everything you need to create a four-season garden."
—Fine Gardening
"A born teacher, [Cohen] has put her considerable knowledge to work in this book for gardeners of many levels in many situations."
—Kym Pokorny, Oregonian
About the authors
Stephanie Cohen
Award-winning author and horticulturist Stephanie Cohen taught herbaceous plants and perennial design at Temple University for more than 20 years. The former director of the Landscape Arboretum at Temple University in Ambler, Pennsylvania, she is a contributing editor for Fine Gardening and The HGTV Newsletter.
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Jennifer Benner
Writer, photographer, and horticulture consultant Jennifer Benner has extensive experience in garden installation and maintenance as well as in nursery production. A former editor and photographer for Fine Gardening, Jennifer has also worked as a gardener, specializing in containers and perennial gardens, in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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