Product Description : Dream Plants for the Natural Garden Join two of the worlds most influential garden designers Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen as they describe their ideal perennials bulbs grasses ferns and small shrubs for your natural garden This comprehensive compendium classifies these 1200 plants according to their behaviour strengths and usesAn ideal plant is one that is both beautiful and robust performing reliably with very little input from the gardener and without artificial fertilizers and pesticides Rather than striving for big bold masses of colourful blooms that are vigorously pruned back as soon as they have finished flowering their innovative approach to gardening involves choosing plants chiefly for their form leaves flower heads and stems included which means they retain their natural beauty through all the seasons Find within1200 beautiful and reliable plants used by top garden designers Full descriptions and growing instructions Unique easytofollow classification according to growing behaviour and use in the garden Natural gardening without artificial fertilizers or pesticides More than 250 fullcolour photographsWith these plants and expert advice create a garden that will thrive with the life of the insects and birds it welcomes ( it is an used product)