Right Plant, Right Place: Over 1400 Plants for Every Situation in the GardenThe Indispensable Guide to the Successful Garden. Now comprehensively revised and updated: over 40% of plants are NEW entries; all photographs are NEW; includes more detailed and NEW information -- USDA hardiness zones, additional plants of interest, etc; and two completely NEW chapters. You will find more than 1,470 plants organized by: GROWING CONDITIONS Plants that will grow in: Shallow soils over chalk Acid soils Heavy clay soils Polluted atmosphere Windswept, seaside sites Dry soils in hot, sunny sites Damp and wet soils Dry shade Dense shade PURPOSE Plants that can be used for: Ground-cover Climbers Hedges Fillers for crevices in paving Growing in containers (trees, shrubs and climbers) APPEARANCE Plants with: Variegated leaves Gray, blue-gray or silver leaves Red, purple or bronze leaves Yellow or yellow-green leaves Decorative, green foliage Colourful autumn foliage Aromatic leaves Ornamental fruit Ornamental bark and twigs Flowers suitable for cutting and drying Fragrant flowers Winter flowers Green flowers 'Black' plants A long, continuous flowering period Each plant is illustrated with a full color photograph and accompanied by a detailed description of its size, flowering season, needs and care. Right Plant, Right Place compresses a shelf full of reference books and a pile of seed catalogs into a single comprehensive guide to plant selection. |
Contents
Introduction | 6 |
Guide to the lists of plants | 7 |
Plants suitable for shallow soils over chalk | 12 |
Plants suitable for acid soils | 24 |
Plants suitable for heavy clay soils | 39 |
Plants suitable for dry soils in hot sunny sites | 51 |
Plants suitable for damp and wet soils including plants suitable for shallow water | 64 |
Plants tolerant of dry shade | 80 |
Plants with purple bronze or red leaves | 197 |
Plants with yellow or yellowgreen leaves | 209 |
Plants with decorative green foliage | 218 |
Plants with colorful autumn foliage including plants with evergreen leaves that change color in late autumn and winter | 234 |
Plants with aromatic foliage | 244 |
Plants with ornamental fruit including plants with ornamental seedheads or seed pods | 252 |
Plants with ornamental bark or twigs including plants with ornamental canes | 262 |
Decorative plants with flowers suitable for cutting including plants with flowers or seedheads suitable for drying | 268 |
Plants tolerant of dense shade | 85 |
Shrubs 3ft90cm and over and trees suitable for windswept seaside gardens | 88 |
Trees shrubs and woody climbers tolerant of atmospheric pollution | 93 |
Plants suitable for ground cover | 104 |
Climbing plants including shrubs needing support in order to grow upright | 126 |
Hedging plants | 137 |
Trees shrubs and woody climbers suitable for growing in containers | 144 |
Plants suitable for crevices in paving | 153 |
Plants with variegated leaves | 160 |
Plants with gray bluegray or silver leaves | 182 |
Plants with fragrant flowers | 296 |
Winterflowering plants | 315 |
Plants with green flowers | 322 |
Black plants | 328 |
Perennial plants including woody plants with a long continuous flowering period | 333 |
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Right Plant, Right Place: Over 1400 Plants for Every Situation in the Garden Nicola Ferguson No preview available - 2005 |
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Common terms and phrases
3ft/90cm or less Acid soils Atmospheric pollution autumn flower color autumn foliage Berberis thunbergii Bergenia blooms bright green clay soils clusters conifer continuous flowering period Cotoneaster cranesbill Crataegus cream Damp and wet dark green Decorative dense drainage Dry soils early autumn flower early summer flower Euonymus fortunei Evergreen Fatshedera lizei featured elsewhere Flowers suitable foliage Fragrant flowers green foliage green leaves Ground cover hardy perennial hardy perennial 4-9 hardy shrub Hedera helix late spring flower late summer flower leaf mid-autumn flower color mid-green midsummer flower color minimum height 3ft/90cm moist moisture-retentive soil Ornamental fruit pale pink height purple Rhododendron rich green Sarcococca scent seedheads Shallow soils sheltered slender soils are suitable soils in hot soils over chalk spring flower color spring to early subshrub subsp suitable for cutting summer flower color sunny sites Taxus baccata type of plant Variegata variegated varieties well-drained soil white height wide winter yellow height