The best conifers for landscaping.
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With blue, green, and gold foliage and shapes ranging from spiky to weeping, conifers have the potential to be garden design stars. But they are commonly misused in gardens and landscapes, leading to looming spruces squashed against a house or rows of kettledrum-shaped yews along a sidewalk. When used correctly and creatively, conifers can be great for creating beautiful, long-lasting plant combinations or serene backyard havens. Whatever landscape situation or challenge a gardener designer faces, Designing with Conifers shows how to make the best choice from this beautiful, useful, and versatile group of plants.
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Designinig with Conifers seeks to liberate its readers from the notion that conifers are merely evergreen workhorses providing architectural structure and continuity. Instead it seeks to celebrate conifers for their colour, texture, and form and provide sufficient information to enable better choices to be made when selecting conifers... an interesting resource, celebrating an under-used group of plants, and it is one I have already dipped into when selecting conifers.
A brave attempt to get us to look at evergreens afresh, and conifer specialist Richard Bitner does an excellent job.
While there are photographs of very grand conifers in very grand gardens, like Longwood, there are also examples of suburban gardens and even containers.
Just the thing for an autumnal day's read.
Contains a huge variety of conifers.
