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(More customer reviews)This book is a typical high-quality Timber Press publication, with heavy weight glossy pages and incredibly beautiful photos. I will definitely use this book as a resource to go back to time and time again while I plan my gardens. However, since the author is British, the book is skewed mostly to English gardening (sorry Arizona residents)and there is no mention of conifers at all. How can someone leave out the pyramidal shapes of spruces or the exclamation points of Skyrocket junipers?? And how can one omit weeping Atlas cedars, ground-hugging Blue Chip junipers or conical Alberta spruces? This is a HUGE hole in a book about line and texture in garden design. The author organizes perennials, trees and some shrubs nicely into differing shapes, but since most American gardens contain some kind of conifers or evergreens for "year-round" interest, the book isn't as useful as it could have been.
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