Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses: Expert Plant Choices and Dramatic Combinations for Year-Round Gardens

I recently heard Adrian Bloom speak and was intrigued by his wonderful color combinations. This is a great book with absolutely wonderful pictures and explanations of 400 garden worthy perennials and grasses. He also has a section on his 12 favorite plants that one could use for their entire garden. The book explains where each plant originated,soil preferences and watering needs. The photos show some of the plants at various times of the year so one can see how they can add interest to the garden during different seasons. This author was the past owner of Blooms of Bressingham and his comments make this an enjoyable read along with a gorgeous and informative book. I intend to plant an area with a wave of summer color for next year.

We have here photos of Foggy Bottom and The Bressingham Gardens in Norfolk UK. Plenty of wonderful photos of perennials and grasses fill this new book. Whilst I personally did not discover anything new in the perennials and grasses depicted there, it was interested to see plants so well grown. The photo of aster frikartii 'Monch' was a delight to set eyes upon. Lots of the perennials mentioned were bred or release from Bloom's nursery, over the years. It would have been nice to see salvia 'Caradonna' and the new weird border phloxes in the photos as well as the new coloured echinaceas. A good book to look at and great to see the plants in the photos identified botanically not common names.Enjoy.

Very educational and well presented, excellent substance and format. Eclectic, and thorough.

Beautiful book with wonderful descriptions of plants.

one of the best books I've gotten so far on gardening and techniques. loads of info

I bought this for my husband who is an avid gardener. He says the book is very good, and gave him ideas for ordering from his spring catalogs.

An highly inspiring book :very well illustrated and the text is professionally written . I bought many perennials because of this book and so far ,no regrets . I even bought a second book as a gift for friends .

As advertised, delivered promptly. Book is so, so. I was hoping for more of a "how to" book on landscape design. It's more of a photo journal of various gardens.

Great pictures to help creating mix of colors and textures which woud be eye catching , Good description of plants . Although I live in a zone 5 ,This book has made me discover a few new plants which thrive in my cold climate.

un bellissimo libro in cui sono illustrate e descritte tutte le varietà con belle illustrazioni oltre la preparazione e la modalità di piantumazione

This is a wonderful book full of breathtaking photos and intelligently arranged information which is accessible to the beginner as well as the expert. I ordered it because I am re-designing quite a large plot and have never really worked with grasses before. Analysing the photos has helped me to focus on exactly how to achieve the effects I am hoping for and the suggested planting combinations make me impatient to get the preparation work over as fast as I can. The book has been on my kitchen table constantly since it arrived and everyone who sits down for a chat picks it up and raves about it. I cannot recommend highly enough.

if you are a fan of adrian blooms gardens and want to create something similar on your own this book is a useful guide to choosing right (= adrian blooms favourite) plants. note, this book is not about designing.

classic gardening book at an acceptable price