Product Description

Christopher Lloyd was one of the world's most outspoken and adventurous gardeners. In this, his last book, he offers his unique perspective on creating 'hot and steamy' planting schemes wherever you garden. It features his most extravagant plantings in the famous borders and pot displays that delight and excite, and sometimes shock, visitors to his garden, Great Dixter.

Covering structure as well as content, hardy as well as tender, foliage as well as flowers, Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners is a worthy successor to Succession Planting and an exuberant swansong for one of the most respected and beloved gardeners ever.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #483995 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Review

"Covers structure as well as content, hardy as well as tender, foliage as well as flowers. The book features extravagant plantings in the borders and pot displays that delight, and sometimes shock."

Michigan Gardener (Michigan Gardener )

"This is [Lloyd's] valedictory book, almost completed when he died, and designed to give courage to the faint of heart." Chicago Tribune

"The ambitious, insouciant, and gloriously extravagant directives of Christopher Lloyd. His last? Here's hoping they find another manuscript tucked away." Garden Rant

"This book is truly an embarrassment of riches for the garden geek. ...The photography is drool-worthy, pure garden porn." Buffalo Spree

“Exotic Planting is an inspiring and informational guide that will have you trading cabbage palm for chrysanthemums any day.” Romantic Homes

"An ebullient farewell to the mundane."

Garden Compass

From the Inside Flap
Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006) was one of the twentieth century's most influential and adventurous ardeners. Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners tells the story of his exotic garden at Great Dixter, which has delighted, and sometimes shocked, summer visitors since it replaced an eighty-year-old, Lutyens-designed rose garden.

The bold foliage of palms was combined with handsome, cut-leaved sumach and arching New Zealand flax; statuesque cannas and bright dahlias, threaded with mauve verbena and infilled with annual climbers, added dazzling color from June until the first frosts; and the whole feeling created was one of being wrapped in a voluptuous living community.

For everyone who loves Christopher Lloyd, this book is an unexpected bonus. His last and most adventurous work was almost complete at the time of his death in 2006, and a handful of his gardening friends gladly finished the task.

Illustrated with stunning photographs by Jonathan Buckley, Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners both inspires and instructs. Few gardeners will be able to resist Lloyd's call to "do something outlandish, to splash out, and be freer than ever."

About the Author
The late Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006) lived in the 15th century half-timbered manor house of Great Dixter his entire life. He is the author of a string of bestselling garden classics, and in 1979 the Royal Horticultural Society conferred on him its highest award, the Victoria Medal of Honour."

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Customer Reviews

Unexpected new book by the Master Gardener
To us garden readers who have enjoyed reading the adventures into gardening by Christopher Lloyd will be pleased and thrilled with the unexpected book by the Master on his 'Exotic Garden' area at Great Dixter UK. After reading the book 'Cuttings', I thought that was the end of an era; but no, we have a new adventure book. Well presented with loads of new photos by Jonathan Buckley. A delight is the additional material given by his gardening friends and these appear throughout the book.
Great read on the exotic garden that began life in 1994. One disappointment is the lack of mention of Farfugium japonicum var, giganteum, or even a photo; to me it is the pinnacle of an exotic garden plant. C. Lloyd did mention it in his book 'Succession Planting' even supplied a dashing photo.
Good Xmas read.

Any general-interest collection appealing to gardeners will find it a popular lend.
Christopher Lloyd was one of the world's most influential gardeners, and while he passed in 2006, his influence remains. EXOTIC PLANTING FOR ADVENTUROUS GARDENERS covers garden content, structure, and theory and represents his last work, nearly complete at the time of his death. His gardener friends helped finished the book, which receives gorgeous color photos by Jonathan Buckley as it presents articles describing exotics in an urban garden, managing unusual plant combos, and more. Any general-interest collection appealing to gardeners will find it a popular lend.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners
For those of you out there, absolutely mad about tropical gardens, this is the ticket for you! Christopher Lloyd, though he left us a short time ago will always be #1. His magnificent transformations of the plain into the fabulous is his trademark.One can see his wonderful, childlike, sense of whimsy, written into his designs. I myself, having seen Great Dixter, his work of art in the UK, was transfixed! His command of the Botanical, as well as the outlandish is phenomenal.