Flower Gardens - Hardcover

Hobhouse, Penelope.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0207173699 ISBN 13: 9780207173691

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 1991

Synopsis

Focusing on the different roles that flowering plants can play in garden pictures all through the seasons, Penelope Hobhouse discusses the qualities that distinguish climax plants, companion plants, flowers for massing in carpets and floral backdrops. The contribution of flowers to different garden styles is discussed in subsequent chapters - from natural gardening, where flowers thrive in the landscape as if growing spontaneously, through classic flower borders and beds, to more manicured styles of elegant formality. The author selects over 700 of the best flowering plants in a comprehensive catalogue, giving full cultivation details. Hobhouse has also written "Colour in Your Garden" and "Garden Style".

About this title

Review:

... almost the equivalent of having the Great Consultant at your elbow filling your flower bed with her suggestions

About the Author:

Penelope Hobhouse is internationally-renowned as a garden designer, writer and historian. She holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society. She has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Guild of Garden Writers and a Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0207173699
• ISBN 13: 9780207173691
• Binding: Hardcover