Gardening with Groundcovers and Vines

by Allen Lacy

Book Overview

Considering two kinds of plants as indispensable elements of a garden - groundcovers and vines, this book teaches readers that together they bring density, diversity and depth to a garden. It calls attention to groundcovers for sunny places and shady ones, herbaceous perennials and woody plants.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060169133
• ISBN13: 9780060169138
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Gardening, Practical and Poetic

Philosopher and dirt-gardener Lacy says this was to be two chapters in a larger book, but these two plant families ran away with him. He urges growing plants on the upper and lowest planes as well as the usual 1 - 5-foot ones. In his elegant prose he tells benefits and drawbacks of various ones, including a chapter "Beautiful Thugs" of things that run wild that entice him, nevertheless. Sumptious photos by frequent book-writing partner Carolyn Woodyard.