The Four Season Landscape: Easy-Care Plants and Plans for Year-Round ColorDesigned to help gardeners escape the dismal, colorless days of winter and the pervasive green-all-over days of summer, this information-packed guide reveals the plants that provide pizzazz when it's least expected and most needed. Season-by-season, Roth lists the best plants for a landscape that brings pleasure 365 days a year. 100 color photos. 68 illustrations. |
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Winter in the FourSeason Landscape | 18 |
Spring in the FourSeason Landscape | 75 |
Summer in the FourSeason Landscape | 134 |
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0-0 A-A Winter Acer palmatum Autumn azalea bark beautiful beautyberry berries bloom bloomers blue blue-green branches bright green broadleaved bulbs clumps clusters cold-hardy Comments conifer Cornus kousa Cotoneaster crabapple creamy white cultivars dark green leaves daylilies deciduous dense Description dogwood dwarf early spring evergreen fall color fall foliage feet tall fine-textured fothergilla four-season landscape fragrant Franklinia fruits Full shade Light Full sun glossy gold grass gray green foliage groundcover grow growth hostas hybrids hydrangea Japanese maple japonica Kousa Kousa dogwood late spring late summer late winter lavender Light shade Half midspring midsummer Miscanthus sinensis mixed border Moist soil Average-dry mound native orange perennials pieris pink flowers plants purple pyramidal Rhododendron rounded season shade Half sun shade Light shade showy shrubs silhouette silver soil Average-dry Drought species spreading stems stewartia stolons tall and wide texture trees and shrubs trunk tulips upright variegated viburnum weeping white flowers witch hazel year-round Zones