The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs

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The Well-Designed Mixed Garden is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants of a wide variety, it reflects decades of professional experience and artistic innovation.

Tracy DiSabato-Aust provides not only inspiration but also scrupulously organized information on design and connoisseur plants. A gallery of detailed design plans is included, as is an encyclopedia of plant combinations with notes on design considerations and tips on how to keep the combinations taking a look their best. The result is a nearly foolproof guide to each and every aspect of designing superior gardens with superior plants.

With more than 250 color photos and illustrations, this paperback edition of a design classic is as much a feast for the eyes as it is going to be a trusted reference for the library shelf.


Tracy DiSabato-Aust’s Well-Designed Mixed Garden provides sound direction for plant lovers taking a look to free their garden from the doldrums and fashion a rich tapestry of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vines, grasses, and bulbs. Encyclopedic in scope yet unfailingly attentive to essential details, The Well-Designed Mixed Garden effectively summarizes an array of basic garden design considerations and fundamentals. There are particularly useful chapters on color theory and on drawing up a plan, with precise instructions on what size plants to purchase and how to space them. As with her highly regarded Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques, DiSabato-Aust delves eagerly into plant maintenance, a topic too many garden writers disregard. Though many examples are from the writer’s own garden or other American Midwest locations, they are in large part applicable to other plant hardiness zones. Of particular appeal are a nicely photographed section on attractive plant combinations and a series of handy appendixes for plant selection. Beginners is also overwhelmed by this book’s wealth of information, but its comprehensiveness renders it the entire more valuable for seasoned gardeners seeking greater practical know-how and a surer grasp of the art of gardening. –Jennifer Wyatt

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