Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design

After first thumbing through this book at my local Extension, I bought a copy for myself. I enjoyed many hours of reading and studying all of the excellent information, and admiring the beautiful photographs. Guided by the garden designs provided, I created my own ornamental grass garden at our creek not too much different than the cover photo. I also added many featured perennial grasses to my backyard meditation garden--even added the two purple Adirondack chairs shown on Page 79. Having received many positive comments, I have bought copies of this book from Amazon for other local avid gardeners. It is the best informational grass book I've found. Karen F

Great reference book for varieties of grasses. I bought this to plan out a hillside landscaping project, and found grasses that would suit my objectives. The book identifies grasses for special situations (hillsides, lawn replacement, full sun, shade, etc.). Lots of pictures, good descriptions of maintenance required, size of fully-mature plants, regional matches, etc.I needed to acquire other books as well (in order to plan other segments of the landscaping project), but this is definitely the best book I found on grasses.

Second one of these for me- gave first one to nephew studying landscape in college- in West Texas. I needed the book again to work on my own yard again. This book is all you need for grasses and ideas for a great yard- it is a keeper best one I have found -(just order an extra one for sharing).

Wonderful photos and information. If only it contained the common name as well as the botanical ones.

THE GRASSES BACKLIT BY THE SUN ARE SPECTACULAR AND THE IDEAS FOR PLACEMENT ARE VERY HELPFUL AND GIVE NEW INSIGHT FOR WHAT CAN BE IN MY YARD. PICTURES BRING TO LIFE SOUNDS OF RUSTLING GRASSES IN THE BREESE AND BUNNIES AND TURTLES WANDERING AROUND. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK FOR MANY REASONS, MEDITATION AND IDEAS. I HAVE IMPLEMENTED SOME OF THEM AND AM SO GLAD I DID.

Not as exhaustive as I had anticipated.

Great for landscaping ideas and good explanations of the "why" of choices. A reference book that you will actually use!

Great resource. I especially like the plant combinations which show what to plant with which grasses. Also good sections on growing conditions for various grasses. Especially useful for those of us just getting into planting grasses.

This book I have with me all the time.It is great when you start a garden with grasses, it gives a lot of helpful information and the pictures are beautiful and a pleasure to look at.

Tutto ok

Book was very informative, posing options based in zone to meet current environmental issues.

Its an excellent book, and gives a good introduction to using grasses in your garden. However it is written for the US market and US garden enthusiast, which is something I didnt notice when bought the book - so the information concerning the sort of climate zones that the plants are best suited for, is specific to the US zoning system and needs interpretation, and of course many of the plants are extremely hard to come by in Europe. All that said, I am very pleased to have bought it and I am using it regularly