Originally published: Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Pub. Co., c1989.

Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden

This useful book instructs gardeners in all aspects of designing with perennials, from color schemes to matching different styles of gardens. Full color.

A visual sourcebook offers ways to use perennials in any setting for creative gardens year round.

Using full-color photos, the author shows you 272 perennials -- arranged according to month of bloom -- to grow in your garden so you can have wonderful color and texture from March through November -- and even winter interest throughout the coldest months of the year.

Provides a photographic guide to more than 1,200 interesting and beautiful garden plants, with each entry including full-color photos, hardiness-zone information, growing tips and more, in a book that also has lists of plants for certain situations.