Provides valuable information on variegated selections that provide long-lasting specimen and accent plantings.
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Once the subject of snobbery and derision, variegated plants are now among the more sought-after and collected treasures of garden connoisseurs. Whether marbled, dotted, splashed or veined, variegated foliage never fails to catch the eye and to add excitement whatever the flowering season. Variegated Trees and Shrubs (which includes woody ground covers and climbers as well) fills an important gap in the literature and provides valuable information on selections that provide longstanding specimen and accent plantings for years of garden pleasure. Written under the sponsorship of the Netherlands' prestigious Royal Boskoop Horticultural Society, this book describes in detail nearly 800 variegated trees, shrubs and climbers available internationally from nurseries. Painstaking in the accuracy of its nomenclature — variegated plants are notorious for being misnamed in commerce — this volume also includes a scientific discussion of the reasons for variegation as well as an essay on how to design with variegated plants in any garden. More than 760 garden photographs have been assembled from the author's collection and from contributors around the world.
340 pp, 215 x 280 mm, 762 colour photos, hardcover
ISBN13 9780881926491
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Like all Timber Press books this is a handsome and sturdy volume, equally at home on the reference shelf or the coffee table.
Its hard to find fault with this lovingly assembled and comprehensive book. The enthusiasm the author feels for his subject is evident throughout the text and constantly enlivens it.
One could say this book is an appreciation of the non-green. It is an excellent encyclopedia . . . in fact, superlative.
This gorgeous guide is highly recommended for all garden and landscape collections.
Recommended for public libraries, for academic libraries collecting in the areas of botany or related fields, and for individual gardening enthusiasts.
As a guide to garden lovers, this publication should succeed in introducing new ideas and further thought into peoples' minds so that gardeners and landscape designers could in the future include a wider colour variation within gardens by using variegated foliage.