This was a very good guide to creating interest in your winter garden. The photographs were beautiful. The book highlighted many plants with winter interest in different and gave idea in how to incorporate them into your landscape.

What a needed book! This book is a gem. Plants for the Winter Garden by Warren Leach fills a void of not enough information regarding what is glorious in a winter garden.

The book has such a great user format. A quick read in regards to type, color, form and most importantly fighting winter erosion of rains. There isn't any reason that plants not be featured in winter when so many of us first don't have snow in the winter that cover up plants but also as our interest is increasing in supporting wildlife especially when they need shelter in the winter to understand why this is such a needed topic to cover in this vital book.

Plants for the Winter Garden is a beautifully illustrated, well grounded compendium for adding winter season interest to the garden, written and curated by Warren Leach. Due out 5th Nov 2024 from Hachette on their Timber Press imprint, it's 256 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

Winter is a challenging season for most gardeners in the northern hemisphere. For most, it's the season of rest after frenetic harvesting and cleaning up in fall... the season of waiting, when the catalogues come to us and we spend days by the fireplace dreaming of the next season. Everyone *wants* to have an attractive and inviting garden even in the bleakest depths of winter.

The author has done a very good job introducing readers to interesting, often beautiful, options for form and structure in the winter season which are often also useful habitat/food for birds and wildlife and give our eyes a resting place through the window in our cozy dreaming.

The author uses proper binomial classification (Latin names) as well as many common and cultivar names to make correct identification and sourcing as easy as possible. He has a phenomenal eye for the architectural design side of garden planning, and this book is a great source of inspiration and ideas for those of us whose garden "planning" tends to consist of wandering around looking for a spare bit of space to plonk new plants into.

The content is grouped into sections thematically: form & color, signs of life (buds, winter fruits, perennials, etc), structure, and seasonal care & maintenance. It's photographed generously in color throughout. The author/publisher have also included a useful cross referenced index. There are no resources or bibliography listed, but many of the species and varieties can be sourced online or from local nurseries. It's slanted toward readers in North America in the temperate areas which experience a "real" winter season with freezing temps and snow/ice.

Five stars. Beautifully done. It would be an excellent choice for public library acquisition, for gardening groups/allotment/community garden, and for smallholders and home gardeners.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

One of my goals is to have some color in my landscape every month of the year (and I live in a temperate zone). So, this book was very attractive to me and I was NOT disappointed! Most books of this type might begin with a heavy section on the landscape design, which would overwhelm me immediately. I really liked how this book begins with a general design introduction, then highlights a great variety of plants that can add variety to the winter landscape. I found all sorts of ideas of plants to add to my property, with the help of abundant beautiful photos. With those ideas in mind, I was better able to then absorb the last sections of the book, which describe how to design a good winter landscape. Example properties are shown in both winter and summer views. The very last part of the book discusses practical aspects of maintenance of the plants. I loved this book and will purchase it for my own library!

Thank you to Timber Press and NetGalley for providing an advance review copy of this book. My opinions are my own.

As a new gardener who is prone to go for the colorful summer stunners, I found this to be a useful and practical guide to plants that add interest when little else will. A fabulous resource for people just like me.

Having recently moved from hardiness Zone 10 to Zone 6, I'm totally new to winter gardening. This book has been a great guide. Every plant is accompanied by a beautiful photograph and a thorough description. Winter is often seen as a dormant time for gardening, but this book proves otherwise. I particularly enjoyed the second half of the book, which covered design aspects I had never considered before. Thank you to the publisher and author for access to an advanced digital copy. All opinions are my own.

The first thing you notice about this book is how beautiful the photographs are! The second thing you notice at how beautiful plants can be in the bleakest season-winter! This book does a fantastic job bringing attention to the beauty of the winter landscape and highlights many ways in which winter plants (both green and not) can be so beautiful if you stop to appreciate them. This book also includes chapters on entry garden design and views of winter plants through windows both of which were so unexpected but greatly appreciated!

The only thing that I didn't enjoy in this book is the captions for photos. All the captions feature the Latin names for plants and it would be much more accessible if the common names were also used.

This was really well written and researched. I felt like I really gained a lot of practical knowledge from reading this. I am excited to implement what I have learned. This was very user friendly and easy to follow.

Winter gardens often go unnoticed. This book enlightens us on winter garden plants and the methods of planting for winter. I suggest this book to all gardening enthusiasts.

A much needed dive in to the seasonal winter gardening, my winters can vary greatly in temperature as apposed to the rest of the states so I was elated to find another New England minded gardener to get suggestions from! Warrens tone was easy to read along with and I feel like I have all the information I need to expand my winter garden! Thanks for access to this great ARC Netgalley and Timber Press! Thanks to this title I will be able to complete scape my space in to a whimsy winter space.

In the last year I have taken over an empty dirt patch outside my apartment and have been working to turn it into a real garden. I would like it to be visually interesting for as many months of the year as possible, so I requested this ARC in the hopes of picking up some tips. This was a difficult one to read because clearly the ebook format had not been taken into consideration — the pages were laid out like they would be in the print version, which made all the text a bit too small to read. I ended up just skimming through and stopping to zoom in where there was a section that seemed interesting. What I did read clearly was written by someone who’d done a lot of research and had a deep knowledge of and love for gardening. However, other than one short section on container planting, this book was written only for people with houses and a fair amount of land attached. I will certainly not be planting trees or even bushes in my little dirt patch, and that was most of what was discussed! The pictures were beautiful though.

This is a beautifully illustrated garden book. I got all kinds of ideas, though it wasn’t always easy to tell which plants would work in my zone 4 garden. I try to plant mostly plants that are native to Minnesota and that adds another level of trickiness but I still love the book.

I read a temporary digital review copy of this book via NetGalley.

“An enthusiastic embrace of the winter season” is a theme woven throughout this book. Exquisite winter photos are featured throughout, showing you what might have been in your garden had you given it some thought.

I will be thinking long and hard about the ideas in Plants for Winter Garden. I learned about marcescent winter foliage and using bark to add cold weather interest.

The Gestalt of Groves was a particularly interesting chapter. So many design ideas were presented in an approachable way. Forms, fruits and blooms for the winter made me consider how to use these elements in a creative way.

If you are wanting to up your winter gardening game, this is the book for you.

This book is a great book for anyone interested in hardy plants for the winter. Being a New York native and currently living in Colorado, I am no stranger to harsh winters. This book is very informative and provides not only in depth details but beautiful supporting pictures as well. I appreciate the several shrubs and trees mentioned, along with tips for their maintenence and protection throughout the year. It's very helpful and insightful, and I plan on incorporating some more resilient plants into my landscaping.

Thank you NetGalley and Timber Press for this informative reference book.