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Planting design for dry gardens : beautiful, resilient groundcovers for terraces, paved areas, gravel, and other alternatives to the lawn / Olivier Filippi ; translated by Caroline Harbouri.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: [London, England] Filbert Press, 2016Edition: English language editionDescription: 240 pages : illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780993389207
  • 0993389201
Uniform titles:
  • Alternatives au gazon. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Lawns and groundcover plants -- The history of lawns and rise of alternatives. Groundcover plants in the wild ; Less water and low maintenance : the groundcover garden -- Groundcover gardens for dry climates. Lawns with warm-season groundcovers ; Green carpets : plants you can walk on ; Flowering carpets : a mixture of groundcover plats ; Mixed grassland "lawns" : the art of cultivating weeds ; Flowering steppes ; Gravel gardens ; Terraces, paths, and steps : the greening of stone surfaces ; Perennial and shrub groundcovers for large areas ; Pioneer plants for slopes and wild gardens ; Flowering meadows in dry climates -- Planting and maintaining the groundcover garden. Soil preparation ; Planting groundcovers ; Economizing on water ; Reducing maintenance ; Garden escapees : the problem in invasive plants -- A-Z of groundcover plants for dry gardens : a directory of 200 species and varieties.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Green lawns are restful to the eye, provide an excellent backdrop to plants and trees and keep the weeds down, but in low-rainfall regions they often end up looking scrappy and brown. In this book, pioneering nurseryman Olivier Filippi offers low-level planting designs that are eco-friendly and so beautiful they redefine the conventional distinction between lawn and plant borders. Inspired by the wild plant communities of Europe, the Middle East, and the USA, these rigorously trialled plant combinations can be used on terraces, paths, gravel beds and flower borders, as well as areas that are traditionally laid to lawn. Plant choices include the tough new macrothermal grasses, carpeting groundcovers and stunning wild flower mixes that thrive among gravel and stone. With a plant directory that lists over 200 tough but beautiful dry garden plants and Filippi's innovative maintenance techniques, this is the perfect companion to his first book The Dry Gardening Handbook and will delight all dry garden owners.

Translation, from the French, of: Alternatives au gazon.

Includes bibliographical references (page 231) and index.

Lawns and groundcover plants -- The history of lawns and rise of alternatives. Groundcover plants in the wild ; Less water and low maintenance : the groundcover garden -- Groundcover gardens for dry climates. Lawns with warm-season groundcovers ; Green carpets : plants you can walk on ; Flowering carpets : a mixture of groundcover plats ; Mixed grassland "lawns" : the art of cultivating weeds ; Flowering steppes ; Gravel gardens ; Terraces, paths, and steps : the greening of stone surfaces ; Perennial and shrub groundcovers for large areas ; Pioneer plants for slopes and wild gardens ; Flowering meadows in dry climates -- Planting and maintaining the groundcover garden. Soil preparation ; Planting groundcovers ; Economizing on water ; Reducing maintenance ; Garden escapees : the problem in invasive plants -- A-Z of groundcover plants for dry gardens : a directory of 200 species and varieties.

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