Fallscaping: Extending Your Garden Season into Autumn

by Nancy J. Ondra, Stéphanie Cohen, Rob Cardillo (Photographer)

Embrace the jewel-toned fruits, flaming foliage, and woody plants of the fall garden. Landscape designers Nancy J. Ondra and Stephanie Cohen offer practical design ideas, plant advice, and 10 complete garden plans in this autumnal gardening guide. Ondra and Cohen’s expertise is complemented by stunning color photographs that illustrate the beauty and variety of this often overlooked gardening season. You’ll be inspired to use vines, tree shrubs, and flowers to contribute color, texture, and beauty to your garden well past summer’s peak. 

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Crafts, Horticulture

Paperback

First published September 12, 2007

About the author

I garden at Hayefield in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Now in its 23rd year, Hayefield includes about three acres of managed meadow and one acre of intensively planted garden and open shrubbery areas.

A freelance garden writer, editor, and photographer, I also sell home-grown seeds and blog about my favorite plants, combinations, and other gardening topics at http://hayefield.com/

Reviews

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures with excellent descriptions. I especially like how a picture is shown and then there is smaller box with just the areas each flower takes up in the picture, named. So much easier to see which flower is which.

[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent book on how to enhance your fall perennial garden! The photos are superb but the text provides many important insights as well. Ondra discusses how to correct the ravages of the summer heat and fill large empty spaces. How to protect the invisible spring bulbs while you plant during the fall months. How to plant autumn blooming bulbs among other perennials which will shelter them when dormant but provide a visible location for their autumn bloom. I highly recommend this book!

[False · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've been reading her gardening books, and I would say my verdict is "so so." She doesn't write with poetics and enthusiasm about the plants, and the way they are organized, including this one, baffle me in terms of usefulness. A far better book on the subject is "The Garden in Autumn," and that one I own. Your eyes will open to the beauty of the changing, waning environment of fall.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The advice is pretty standard, but the photos are flat-out gorgeous.