Perennial Companions

100 Dazzling Plant Combinations for Every Season
by Tom Fischer

Juxtapositioning is key in this new book of perennial gardening. It's a visual guide to pairing off plants, arranged by season, spring through winter, analyzing why the relationships work, and diagramming exactly how they were created. Some of the combinations are simple duets: beebalm and purple moor grass; some deal with four or more plants; sometimes the author, Tom Fischer, pushes the envelope - goes out on a limb, as they say in horticulture - and creates some purple and orange arrangements that will not be everyone's crop of compost tea. But experiment, expirement is his battle cry, and experimenting with nature is what makes gardening such a lively art.
 

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