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Title: Dream Plants for the Natural Garden by Henk Gerritsen, Piet Oudolf ISBN: 0-88192-493-8 Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Book!
Comment: Dream Plants is a great book. The authers are upfront, the plants they critique are ones they have grown. While I might not agree with some of they're descriptions, I as a gardener realize that I have my own little piece of earth and they have theirs. I found it wonderful. The pictures, the layout, the descriptions, and yes, the I don't agree.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful book, a guide worthy of owning and studying...
Comment: This volume, taken together with Oudolf's "Designing With Plants" -- an invaluable companion -- gives the gardener an inspiring and comprehensive approach to stylish landscape design and plant selection. Taken by itself, "Dream Plants" is a not necessarily helpful guide. It's hard to make sense of it as different from any other plant selection book, as it has no context. But in consort with "Designing With Plants," the design context comes clear: one has both the key and the lock in one place -- the design guide, and the plant selection menu. With both in hand -- and the photographs are lush and suggestive, and the plans bold and clearly illuminated -- there remains plenty of obscurity throughout. But there are not many mistakes here of continuity, and so one has confidence that it is as full and reliable a depiction of natural, early 21st century garden and landscape design principles and practice one can get between two covers.
Contrast this with the dreary corporate planting schemes of van Sweeden and Oehme -- not an inspiration anywhere in their so-called "Bold Romantic Gardens". With Oudolf, the reader discovers as much about the the secrets of his design pallet as can be revealed without actually having him standing over your shoulder. This book is full of mystery, which is as it should be, with detailed clues and hints in the variety of plants discussed in detail, the photographs of combinations that demonstrate his views on plant structure, appearance and sequencing, and the useful back-and-forth between the principles of garden design he favors, and the selection of plants he uses to bring it to life.
I would not purchase "Dream Plants" without also purchasing "Designing With Plants." Together, they are a fabulous combination.
Rating: 2
Summary: You need to know plants to benefit from this book
Comment: Dutchmen Gerritsen and Oudolf label Boltonia a "troublesome, demanding plant." The same with our common wildflower Monkshood. They say that Knipofia won't survive winter. Lobelia hybrids are "only for people with green fingers." "Tierella wherryi is quite reliable when you look after it properly..." All of these plants are favorites in US gardens.
And the crowning insult to American readers -- Echniacea (Purple Coneflower) is labeled "troublesome." This is one of the most popular perennials in the US!
While I appreciate the design ideas of Oudolf's earlier books, this one is a bust as far as plant advice for US readers goes -- and the plant descriptions take up most of the book.
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Title: Designing With Plants by Piet Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury ISBN: 0881924377 Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Planting the Natural Garden by Piet Oudolf, Henk Gerritsen ISBN: 088192606X Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Gardening With Grasses by Michael King, Piet Oudolf ISBN: 0881924113 Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs by Tracy Disabato-Aust, Martin Knapp, Stacey Renee Peters, C. Colston Burrell ISBN: 0881925594 Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design by Nancy J. Ondra, Saxon Holt ISBN: 158017423X Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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