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Foliage: Dramatic and Subtle Leaves for the Garden

Foliage: Dramatic and Subtle Leaves for the Garden


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Foliage is destined to play a key role in the gardens of the future as gardeners increasingly recognise the astonishing repertoire that foliage offers in terms of shapes, textures and colours, from the dramatic impact of large leaved exotics to the subtle sensuality of bamboos and grasses. Here, David Joyce analyzes the characteristics of leaves, shows why foliage is so valuable ornamentally and looks at the way they are carried on the plant and discusses their contribution to the overall effect of the garden. The book also features a special selection of outstanding foliage plants, cross-referenced with earlier chapters.

Table of Contents:
Leaf shape and size: simple geometry; hearts and kidneys; eggs and spoons; straps and ribbons; lances and arrows; swords and blades; needles and threads; notches and lobes; toothed and prickly; compounds; hands and fans; feathers and filigree; leaf flowers; giants and miniatures. Leaf texture: glittering and sheeny; tough and leathery; waxy and succulent; veined, quilted and pleated; hairy and bristly; silk, satin and velvet; woolly and felted; waved, twisted and curled. Leaf colour: rich and dark greens; light and soft greens; yellow to gold; grey to blue; pinks, reds and purples; metallic lustres and tones; cool variegation; warm variegations; speckled, spotted and mottled; margins and undersides. The plant: canopies; cones and pyramids; tiers and cascades; domes and mounds; tufts and clumps; rosettes; mats and carpets; pencils and columns; shuttlecocks and fountains. The garden: broad effects; detail; the season. Selected foliage plants.

Review :
There is more to a colourful garden than flowers. Just pause and look around and you will soon spot greens of every hue, variegation and stripes, mauves, yellows, reds and pinks. Shape and form too from spiky or heart-shaped, palm-like or rosettes, glossy or matt, spiny or furry, all adding interest alongside the prima donnas of the flower world, enhancing these fleeting beauties with a more permanent presence. Foliage is the new colour and backbone to gardens, guaranteed year in, year out unlike floral shrubs or perennials which can occasionally sulk. From deep red Spring shoots to Summer's lush green leaves, colourful foliage abounds in every season, not just in the autumn fanfare of fiery hues but continuing into Winter with evergreen shrubs such as ivy and laurels adding a quiet but stately presence to an otherwise empty garden. Expert horticulturalist and garden writer David Joyce shares his many years of experience to explain, demonstrate and inspire gardeners with the endless source of ideas to be found with foliage: how to group them, grow them, place them, all clearly discussed and accompanied by superb colour photographs. Ending with a directory of selected foliage plants (which would have been enhanced with the inclusion of individual photographs) this is a fascinating and informative look at what is seen as a new trend in gardening but which in reality has always been taken into account by professional growers throughout the centuries. - Lucy Watson


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781903845714
  • Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 266 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 650 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1903845718
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Dramatic and Subtle Leaves for the Garden
  • Width: 212 mm


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