Planting Design for Dry Gardens: Beautiful, Resilient Groundcovers for Terraces, Paved Areas, Gravel and Other Alternatives to the Lawn - Hardcover

Olivier Filippi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0993389201 ISBN 13: 9780993389207

Publisher: Filbert Press, 2016

Synopsis

Green lawns are restful to the eye, provide an excellent backdrop to plants and trees and keep the weeds down, but in low-rainfall regions they often end up looking scrappy and brown. In this book, pioneering nurseryman Olivier Filippi offers low-level planting designs that are eco-friendly and so beautiful they redefine the conventional distinction between lawn and plant borders. Inspired by the wild plant communities of Europe, the Middle East, and the USA, these rigorously trialled plant combinations can be used on terraces, paths, gravel beds and flower borders, as well as areas that are traditionally laid to lawn. Plant choices include the tough new macrothermal grasses, carpeting groundcovers and stunning wild flower mixes that thrive among gravel and stone. With a plant directory that lists over 200 tough but beautiful dry garden plants and Filippi's innovative maintenance techniques, this is the perfect companion to his first book The Dry Gardening Handbook and will delight all dry garden owners.

About this title

Product Description:

Olivier Filippi s waterwise planting designs offer a beacon of hope to dry climate gardeners. His low-level plant combinations are waterwise, eco-friendly and redefine the old distinction between lawn and flowers. The plant section includes over 200 drought-tolerant grasses, groundcovers, perennials and wild flowers that thrive among gravel and stone.

Review:

"This attractive, comprehensive work shows how to care for many kinds of beautiful, drought-resistant gardens." --Library Journal, June 1, 2016 issue

"a comprehensive and indispensable resource." --Publishers Weekly, 7/1/2016

This gorgeously illustrated book is a revolt against the "dreary uniformity" of expansive lawns in deference to natural sustainable landscapes . . . The directory of 200 species and their varieties makes this a comprehensive and indispensable resource that will surprise and delight the courageous gardener who is looking maximize beauty and minimize upkeep. --Publishers Weekly

"an inspiring work." --Pacific Horticulture Magazine, Fall 2016 issue

"[A] book that I can whole-heartedly recommend." --Rock Garden Quarterly

About this edition

• Publisher: Filbert Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0993389201
• ISBN 13: 9780993389207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240