What Plant Where - A Simple Garden Making Guide for New Zealand Gardens

"The aim for this guidebook is to distill the basics from the wealth of gardening resources that exist and to find information specifically for New Zealand gardens to give you a simple, solid starting point and success in the garden. 'What Plant Where' is a guidebook with the basic information needed to create a garden that is affordable, attractive, easily maintained and long-lasting. This book focuses on 145 plants that are proven performers, meaning they look great season to season, year to year, are readily available, low maintenance and hardy. In 'What Plant Where' you will be able to: Identify the basic site conditions of the garden bed you are working on and be able to quickly select the plants that will best grow there. Clearly see examples of the different types and species of plants and their uses in garden design. There are a series of garden design advice pages which cover the principles of garden design and include design solutions for a variety of different shaped and sized garden beds you may encounter. This book has an easy to use reference system whereby you select the site conditions of your garden bed and the type of plant you are looking for ie. tree, hedge etc. This will take you to the page/s with a fully illustrated and annotated list of the species that will thrive in this space. From there you simply choose the plant you like the best. Each plant is presented on its own icon which includes a full colour photograph of the plant, annotated with growth sizes and speed, wind tolerances, states if it is a NZ native, if it is attractive to birds or bees and has an illustration of the shape of the plant once mature"--Publisher information.