Plants for the Winter Garden
Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow
by Warren Leach
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Pub Date Nov 05 2024 | Archive Date Nov 05 2024
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Description
Though many plants go dormant in wintry months, there are many inspiring cultivars and varieties that hold their interest through the cold and snow, including brightly colored twigs, buds, and berries, dazzling winter flowers and dried seed pods. Plantsman Warren Leach shares expertise and techniques perfected over thirty years of gardening in frigid eastern Massachusetts, including:
·Incorporating structural elements like stone walls, paths, and hardy containers
·Accentuating plant shapes which hold their form year-round
·Siting and pruning evergreens for maximum effect
·Showcasing trees with textured or colorful bark
·And so much more!
Plants for the Winter Garden extends the possibilities for the cold-climate gardener and provides invaluable insight that will make any garden thrive during the cold season.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781604699265 |
PRICE | $40.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 256 |
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Featured Reviews
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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