The Sunny Border: Sun-Loving Perennials for Season-Long Color

21st-Century Gardening

by C. Colston Burrell (Editor)

A garden in the sun-what could be more colorful and enjoyable! Design and plant your own unique sun garden of perennials with your choice of beautiful, multifaceted blooms. What will it be for you? Perhaps a sun-drenched English border, resplendent with soft, romantic pinks and blues. A wild prairie garden with tiny subtle flowering grasses. A cottage door yard, or a variegated tumble of flowers, shrubs, and vegetables in bold sweeps and clusters. Chapters cover the ground rules of perennials, with planting and maintenance tips for 75 dramatic plants and 96 flowering shrubs, arranged by their moisture and climate preferences. A photo gallery of will inspire you to make the most of any site of any shape or size.

Genres: Gardening

112 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2002

About the author

C. Colston Burrell is a garden designer, photographer, naturalist and award winning writer. He is author of several books, including Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide (winner of the 2007 AHS Book Award), Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants, Rodales Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials, revised in 2004, Perennials for Todays Gardens, Perennial Combinations, (a Garden Book Club best selling title) and A Gardeners Encyclopedia of Wildflowers (winner of the 1997 AHS Book Award). Cole serves as contributing editor to Horticulture magazine. He lectures internationally on topics of design, plants and ecology. He has undergraduate degrees in Botany and Horticulture, an M.S. in Horticulture and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota. He is a lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia."