Planting design for dry gardens : beautiful, resilient groundcovers for terraces, paved areas, gravel and other alternatives to the lawn
Filippi, Olivier2016
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Green lawns are restful to the eye, provide an excellent backdrop to plants and trees and keep the weeds down, but in low-rainfall regions they often end up looking scrappy and brown. This book offers low-level planting designs that are ecofriendly and so beautiful they redefine the conventional distinction between lawn and plant borders. Inspired by the wild plant communities of Europe, the Middle East, and the US, its rigorously trialled plant combinations can be used on terraces, paths, gravel beds and flower borders, as well as areas that are traditionally laid to lawn. Plant choices include the tough new macrothermal grasses, carpeting groundcovers and stunning wild flower mixes that thrive among gravel and stone.
Main title:
Planting design for dry gardens : beautiful, resilient groundcovers for terraces, paved areas, gravel and other alternatives to the lawn / Olivier Filippi ; translated by Caroline Harbouri.
Author:
Filippi, Olivier, authorHarbouri, Caroline, translator
Imprint:
London : Filbert Press, 2016.
Collation:
240 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780993389207 (hbk)
Dewey class:
635.9525
LC class:
SB438
Local class:
635.952
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
1046195