Christopher Lloyd's Flower Garden

by Christopher Lloyd

This book takes a personal view of how to combine plants and shrubs to create spectacular effects in a garden. Planting schemes are arranged by season to create the colour combinations of the author's own garden at Great Dixter in Sussex. Many gardeners will be surprised to learn that atmospheric colour and foliage effects are possible in all four seasons. The book includes information on tulips, foliage meadows, ponds, walls, grasses, bamboo, winter arrangements and topiary.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE, was a British gardener and author. He was the 20th Century chronicler for the heavily planted, labour-intensive, country garden.[

Reviews

[David Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Christopher Lloyd's Flower Garden by Christopher Lloyd (635.9). This is veddy British. The book featured many plants with which I was not familiar. It was dry, wry, and funny; for example, his entry on spiderwort (tradescantia) states as follows: "The flowering season is protracted but the plants become increasingly sleazy in appearance. These are not vital border occupants." I personally call this an essential gardening tool. 7.8/10, finished 4/27/11.