What you'll find
Field Notes - Making a Perennial Garden
Comprises 62 pages filled with information to guide the design and planning of an abundant perennial garden filled with life, colour and texture.
Within the pages you will find;
- The key things I consider when selecting perennials for a beautiful show and long season of interest.
- Ideas for structural planting in a perennial garden and how to use it.
- The diversity of plant and flower forms, the roles they play, and those I always aim to include.
- The magical ingredients of light and movement and how to harness them.
- Perennials for texture and winter interest.
- Ornamental grasses and their place in perennial gardens.
- A sample perennial garden plan including a drawn design, planting palette, plant placement and plant profiles. The plan reflects my own home perennial gardens and includes plants I grow, and that I know live happily side by side and look great together.
- Plentiful full colour illustrations and photos to demonstrate the content.
- Ponderings on the beauty of a perennial garden, and what it can bring to your garden story, and much more!
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The Garden Curator
Making a Perennial Garden
The Garden Curator Field Notes is a series of digital notebooks to guide your creative garden making. Field Notes draws on The Garden Curator's parallel paths as a professional artist, horticulturist and garden designer, to help you see your garden through a gardener's and artist's lens.There’s a lot of gardening info out there, but Field Notes is a little different to the rest; it’s a friendly conversation, and a gathering of thoughtful and creative garden ideas gleaned over The Garden Curator's 30+ years of garden making and art practice. Regardless of where you are gardening, the principles and ideas shared within Field Notes can inspire your garden making path.
The information within complements the other Field Notes editions in your collection.
Please note, this is a digital product, and you will receive a download link in your order confirmation email.
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I’ll see you in the garden. Colleen x
