Thanks for the recommendations Marge.
"Dry Garden" and "Damp Garden" were books published by Sagapress/
Timber Press. "Beth Chatto's Garden Notebook"
will be published this August.
Look for a description of this title along with our new fall list
coming to our web site next week.
Best regards,
Ann (Andrea) Anderson
Timber Press, Inc. http://www.timber-press.com
133 S.W. 2nd Ave. #450 800.327.5680/503.227.2878
Portland, OR 97204 USA fax 503.227.3070
USDA Zone 8, Sunset Zone 6
Marge Talt wrote:
>
> To Steve's excellent suggestion I would have to add 'Perennials For
> American Gardens' by Ruth Rogers Clausen and Nicholas H. Ekstrom and
> 'Manual of Woody landscape Plants' by Michael A. Dirr. These two as well
> as Wyman are the ones I refer to the most. If you can find one of the
> 'deals' that come up every so often, 'Hortus III' is a good reference
> although getting a bit outdated in nomenclature I understand. Wouldn't pay
> $100 for it, tho'. For a good read and good advice, any of the books by
> the late Henry Mitchell are well worth getting. I miss that man - his
> column in the Washington Post made my Sunday for years. Although you have
> to make allowances for the difference between US conditions and UK
> conditions, Beth Chatto's 'The Damp Garden' and 'The Dry Garden' are
> personal favorites of mine and contain very good information on the native
> sources for many perennials that we can grow in various parts of the US,
> which helps to figure out what kind of conditions they need to grow well.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@clark.net
> Editor: Gardening in Shade
> http://www.suite101.com
>
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