Reader's digest guide to creative gardening

By Reader's Digest Association

Book Overview

With more than 1000 plants and 230 specially created plant groups, this book helps you design and create the garden of your dreams. Over 1200 beautiful photographs and illustrations accompany... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0276352238
• ISBN13: 9780276352232
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Readers Digest
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

creative gardening

These is one of the most beautiful gardening books I own. The combinations of flowers used are very creative and inspiring. Alot of the pictures are watercolors and some are photos. Good info on flowers and shrubs. Any one just getting started with a garden can use this book and any seasoned gardener must have this book.

great book.

This book is nearly 400 pages, and is CHOCK FULL of color photographs (and color drawings in some places). The sections are broken into "Annuals and Biennial", "Perennials", "Climbing Plants", "Shrubs", Trees, Roses, Water Garden Plants, Rock Garden Plants, and Bulbs Corms & Tubers. Each plant has a description of its appearance, preferences, and how to grow it. There is an index listing plants by special purpose "with aromatic foliage", "with fragrant flowers", "for cut flowers", "winter interest", etc. Also a chart that lists plants by their preferences for soil, sunlight, size, etc. Despite the title, this book doesn't cover the "creative" part... there's nothing about how to be creative with your garden. However, the book's focus is on describing the types of plants you'd have in a creative garden.