Adrian Bloom's Year-round Garden - Tapa dura

This book is good for both envy and inspiration. The well-written text is accompanied by wonderful photographs. A very attractive, useful guidebook based on Adrian Bloom's . . . private garden Adrian Bloom's "Year-Round Garden" is a beautiful and practical addition to any personal, gardening club, horticultural society or public library collection. "Adrian Bloom's Year Round Garden" is beautifully and thoughtfully written and enhanced with his magnificent photos. -- Marty Figley "Garden Spot" (01/01/1999) Here you will find not only fine descriptions of many perennials, but as importantly, how to use them in your garden. -- John E. Bryan "Gardening Newsletter" (01/01/1999) [A] brilliant volume that shows you how to achieve year-round color in your garden . . . This book belongs in every gardener's library. -- Barbara Blossom Ashmun "Fine Gardening" (09/01/1998) Adrian Bloom has produced an exceptionally beautiful, inspiring, yet practical book on gardening, useful for the beginning to the more advanced gardener. -- Joanne S. Carpender "National Gardener" (03/04/2005) This lavish reference book for gardeners seeking color from January to December also makes an attractive coffee table book. Bloom has packed each page with glossy color photographs -- Don Burns "San Mateo County Times" (11/01/1998) Color photos taken by Bloom beautifully showcase his six-acre garden throughout the year as he discusses the challenges of each season, his favorite plants and plant associations, and how his ideas can be applied to smaller gardens. In addition to being a master gardener, Mr. Bloom does a wonderful job in conveying gardening information in an interesting way ... Timber Press is to be commended for bringing this book to all of us. Zoos and aquariums with limited budgets will derive a lot of benefit from this book. -- Thane Johnson "American Association of Zoos and Aquariums Newsletter" (11/13/2000)

Previously published in two separate volumes (Summer Garden Glory and Winter Garden Glory), this book shows the author's six-acre private garden, Foggy Bottom, throughout the year. It demonstrates the appeal and interest provided by successful plant associations and illustrates many of the varieties developed by the world-famous Blooms of Bressingham nursery that are becoming increasingly available in the U.S.