Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners

By Christopher Lloyd

Book Overview

Christopher Lloyd was one of the world's most outspoken and adventurous gardeners. In this, his last book, he offers his unique perspective on creating 'hot and steamy' planting schemes wherever you garden. It features his most extravagant plantings in the famous borders and pot displays that delight and excite, and sometimes shock, visitors to his garden, Great Dixter. Covering structure as well as content, hardy as well as tender, foliage as well as flowers, Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners is a worthy successor to Succession Planting and an exuberant swansong for one of the most respected and beloved gardeners ever.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881928429
• ISBN13: 9780881928426
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners

For those of you out there, absolutely mad about tropical gardens, this is the ticket for you! Christopher Lloyd, though he left us a short time ago will always be #1. His magnificent transformations of the plain into the fabulous is his trademark.One can see his wonderful, childlike, sense of whimsy, written into his designs. I myself, having seen Great Dixter, his work of art in the UK, was transfixed! His command of the Botanical, as well as the outlandish is phenomenal.

Any general-interest collection appealing to gardeners will find it a popular lend.

Christopher Lloyd was one of the world's most influential gardeners, and while he passed in 2006, his influence remains. EXOTIC PLANTING FOR ADVENTUROUS GARDENERS covers garden content, structure, and theory and represents his last work, nearly complete at the time of his death. His gardener friends helped finished the book, which receives gorgeous color photos by Jonathan Buckley as it presents articles describing exotics in an urban garden, managing unusual plant combos, and more. Any general-interest collection appealing to gardeners will find it a popular lend. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Unexpected new book by the Master Gardener

To us garden readers who have enjoyed reading the adventures into gardening by Christopher Lloyd will be pleased and thrilled with the unexpected book by the Master on his 'Exotic Garden' area at Great Dixter UK. After reading the book 'Cuttings', I thought that was the end of an era; but no, we have a new adventure book. Well presented with loads of new photos by Jonathan Buckley. A delight is the additional material given by his gardening friends and these appear throughout the book. Great read on the exotic garden that began life in 1994. One disappointment is the lack of mention of Farfugium japonicum var, giganteum, or even a photo; to me it is the pinnacle of an exotic garden plant. C. Lloyd did mention it in his book 'Succession Planting' even supplied a dashing photo. Good Xmas read.