Perennials: For Today's Gardens

by C. Colston Burrell

-- Portraits of 100 top perennials, detailed information, plus tips for growing them and creating dazzling combinations.
-- More than 400 stunning color photos.

Genres: Gardening

288 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2000

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."

Reviews

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Very basic stuff on putting a sun garden or shade garden together. In every photograph there looked like a lot of overplanting to give a lush look. For the shade perennials, he seemed to focus the most on things that would bloom in the spring. It would have been nice to have had a better selection of summer and autumn bloomers as well. As with any gardening book, lush photography, but overall, not a serious gardening book...and I might add, that "those" are so rare. You really have to seek them out.