Designer Plant Combinations

105 Stunning Combinations Using Six Plants or Fewer
by Scott Calhoun

Plants in a garden don't exist in a vacuum. Some like to show off as specimens, but the best gardens are made of plants that are involved in good relationships with each other, like functional families. Scott Calhoun's  Designer Plant Combinations examines the principles underlying these relationships and offers more than a hundred examples, put together by such noted designers as Piet Oudolf, Panayoti Kelaidis, Stephanie Cohen and Duncan Brine, of succesful horticultural synergy. Visitors to The New York Botanical Garden will recognize an especially vibrant one from the Lynden Miller perennial garden just down the way and illustrated on page 222....

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