Succession planting : for year-round pleasure / Christopher Lloyd ; edited by Erica Hunningher ; photographs by Jonathan Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, Christopher, 1921-2006.

Contributor:

Hunningher, Erica.

Buckley, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape gardening.

Plants, Ornamental.

Physical Description:

192 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2005.

Summary:

Week after week, year in year out, visitors flock to see Christopher Lloyd's exuberant plantings at Great Dixter in Sussex, England, wondering how on earth he achieves the continuously exciting and ever-changing displays. In Succession Planting for Year-round Pleasure he reveals the secrets and 'wily tricks' of keeping his celebrated borders lively in every season.

Planting plans and photographs show the stages in the planting of borders that begin their display early in the year, build up to a glorious peak in summer and continue into late autumn. 'One of our principal objects', writes Lloyd, 'is to keep the show going for as long as possible, with one highlight immediately succeeded by another.'

Lloyd describes hundreds of plants that he and head gardener Fergus Garrett use and maintain in brilliant succession. Their ingredients include hard-working anchor plants - a core necessity - and perennials, interwoven with bulbs that share the same space year after year. Climbers draped over shrubs and clambering up poles prolong the season and extend excitement skywards. Other plants are incidental, even accidental, offering a feeling of relaxation.

Hardy and tender perennials as well as bulbs, annuals and biennials contribute to seasonal colour displays integrated with the border's permanent ingredients. 'Temporary plantings are an essential ingredient in the adventurous gardener's armoury,' writes Lloyd. 'At no point shall there be a lapse.'

In Succession Planting for Year-round Pleasure Lloyd both inspires and instructs. Illustrated with hundreds of informative and inspiring photographs by Jonathan Buckley, few gardeners will be able to resist an invitation to be as adventurous in their borders as the most adventurous gardener of our time.

Contents:

The art and craft of Successions 6

Anchor Plants the core necessity 30

Perennials & Bulbs that share the same space 56

Spring and early-summer Bedding 78

Summer Bedding into autumn 104

The charm of Self-Sowers 136

Climbers for interest skywards 160

A matter of Maintenance 178.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0881927139

OCLC:

56608093