Artful Gardens- NZ Garden Design and Advice
A visual plant selection tool for designers, landscapers and home gardeners. A selection of 194 beautiful and reliable native and exotic plants are classified into groundcovers, small and medium plants, tall plants, hedging, climbers, trees and lawn alternatives. Each plant has a photograph and easy-to-grasp information on: Where it will grow Growth speed What shape it will grow into How big it will get If it is beneficial to wildlife Care required to thrive Species included in this book include much loved (sometimes fickle) Lemon trees, Buxus hedging, Daphne, Lavender as well as ferns, tussocks, flowering perennials and natives.
What Plant Where- A Simple Garden Making Guide For Aotearoa New Zealand Gardens
This book focuses on 145 plant species that are proven performers, meaning they look great season to season, year to year, are readily available, low maintenance and hardy. There are illustrated examples of each of the different types and species of plants in this book and their uses in garden design. In What Plant Where you will be able to identify the basic site conditions of the garden bed you are working on and be able to easily select the plants that will best grow there.
What Plant Where Guidebook | Artful Gardens
This guidebook has an easy to use reference system whereby you select the site conditions of your garden bed and the type of plant you are looking for ie. tree, hedge etc. This will take you to the page/s with a fully illustrated and annotated list of the species that will thrive in this space. From there you simply choose the plant you like the best.