Product Description

Gardeners, plant collectors, horticulturists, and landscape designers will find a valuable resource in this carefully selected plant directory of best performing winter-flowering shrubs. Readers will find daphnes, viburnums, witch hazels, and camellias to suit every taste and garden situation, as well as information about how to help their choice winter-flowering shrubs flourish from November to March. Tips on combining winter-flowering shrubs, using winter sunlight to backlight choice specimens, and getting the right balance of complementary plants complete this practical and inspiring guide. Whether looking to extend a plant collection or create a winter garden, collectors and gardeners alike will delight in the possibilities available for blooms and scents in colder climates.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1002246 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Released on: 2005-09-15
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 232 pages

From Booklist
Having gained expertise working in England, Buffin possesses an intimate knowledge of the surprisingly subtle yet magical displays that characterize gardens in wintertime. Such a sophisticated perspective illuminates the book's introductory chapters, showing gardeners how they might design plantings for dramatic effects with textured bark and glowing thorns, evergreen profiles, luminous bamboo culms, or ornamental grasses with persistent, showy plumes. Buffin addresses hardiness zones as well as bloom times for areas of the U.S. in a richly descriptive, encyclopedic listing of shrubs that flower in winter. Experienced and novice green thumbs with winter in mind can dip into entries spanning abeliophyllum to viburnum and be well-advised on a fascinating range of popular and lesser-known species and recommended cultivars. The cultivation tips accompanying entries will inspire, inform, and prepare gardeners looking for exceptional specimens to incorporate all-year-round interest. Alice Joyce
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Review
"Buffin possesses an intimate knowledge of the surprisingly subtle yet magical displays that characterize gardens in wintertime. The cultivation tips accompanying entries will inspire, inform, and prepare gardeners looking for exceptional specimens to incorporate all-year-round interest."
—Alice Joyce, Booklist, September 1, 2005 (Booklist )

"Every garden can benefit from the element of surprise provided by the plants described here."
–Rob Cassy, The Bookseller, Fall 2005 (The Bookseller )

"The sweet smell of daphnes and witch hazels nearly drifts off the pages ... this book reminds us how lucky we are to garden in a climate where we can have some plant or another in bloom every day of the year."
—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, September 16, 2005 (Seattle Times )

"This would make a wonderful gift book for any gardener with the winter blues."
—Marianne Binetti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 19, 2006
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer )

Buffin possesses an intimate knowledge of the surprisingly subtle yet magical displays that characterize gardens in wintertime. The cultivation tips accompanying entries will inspire, inform, and prepare gardeners looking for exceptional specimens to incorporate all-year-round interest. Alice Joyce, Booklist, September 1, 2005 (Booklist )

Every garden can benefit from the element of surprise provided by the plants described here. Rob Cassy, The Bookseller, Fall 2005 (The Bookseller )

The sweet smell of daphnes and witch hazels nearly drifts off the pages ... this book reminds us how lucky we are to garden in a climate where we can have some plant or another in bloom every day of the year. Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, September 16, 2005 (Seattle Times )

This would make a wonderful gift book for any gardener with the winter blues. Marianne Binetti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 19, 2006 (Seattle Post-Intelligencer )

From the Publisher
Here you will find daphnes, viburnums, witch hazels, and camellias to suit every taste and garden situation. Includes tips on combining winter-flowering shrubs, using winter sunlight to backlight choice specimens, and getting the right balance of plants that offer different characteristics.