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Most gardeners want their borders to be interesting and colorful over a long season, even year-round if winters are not too severe. With this book, Christopher Lloyd shows how he chooses and orchestrates plants so that the borders always look their best. Once having covered the principles of succession planting, Lloyd explores the ingredients necessary to ensure continuously lively borders — from anchor plants and permanent perennials to drop-in plants and self-sowers. Packed with fresh ideas and practical advice for every season, Succession Planting contains all the information you need to create brilliantly successful year-round planting schemes.
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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.Lloyd describes hundreds of plants that he and head gardener Fergus Garrett use and maintain in 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.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.
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