Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Gardening with Stone

Gardening with Stone: Using Stone Features to Add Mystery, Magic, and Meaning to Your Garden (1999) by Jan Kowalczewski Whitner

Covers various styles of gardens: Asian, Formal, Natural, Water-Wise, Cottage, Water, and Patterned.

Discusses habitats: fissures, screes, ledges, outcrops, meadows, woodlands, gravel, beaches, wetlands, troughs, deserts, and paving. Includes lists of recommended plants for each habitat.

For example, some of the woodlands recommendations are:

rhododendrons
azaleas
ferns
mosses
hardy cyclamen
barrenwort
bloodroot
trillium

Interesting section on stone art.

Lots (and I do mean LOTS) of color photographs.

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