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Designing with Conifers

The Best Choices for Year-Round Interest in Your Garden

Author: Richard L. Bitner

With blue, green, and gold foliage and shapes ranging from spiky to weeping, conifers have the potential to be garden design stars. But they are commonly misused in gardens and landscapes, leading to looming spruces squashed against a house or rows of kettledrum-shaped yews along a sidewalk. When used correctly and creatively, conifers can be star players in creating beautiful, long-lasting plant combinations or a serene backyard haven.

Designing with Conifers shows readers exactly how to choose the best conifers for specific needs. Chapters cover shape, color, and conifers for specific sites an conditions, including front gardens, hedges and screens, topiary, dwarf conifers, shade gardens, Asian-style gardens, bonsai, and miniature railroad gardens. Also includes useful appendices that list of conifers for various problems and conditions, like conifers for areas plagued by deer and the best conifers for Christmas trees and Southern gardens. Each section is enlivened with gorgeous color photographs.

Whatever landscape situation or challenge a gardener designer faces, Designing with Conifers shows how to make the best choice from this beautiful, useful, and versatile group of plants.

310 color photos

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Specific Details

Hardcover: 296 pages
Illustrated
Title: Designing with Conifers
Author: Richard L. Bitner
Publisher: Timber Press
Date: 2011
ISBN 10: 160469193X
ISBN 13: 9781604691931
Language: English
Weight: 2 lbs 4.5 ounces

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