Right Plant, Right Place : Over 1400 Plants for Every Situation in the Garden

by Nicola Ferguson

• ISBN13: 9780743276504
• ISBN10: 0743276507
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-15
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

When Nicola Ferguson first started gardening, she couldn't find a book that would help her with her new, cold, shady garden, so she wrote one herself.

Author Biography

Nicola Ferguson was born in 1949 and brought up in Northern Ireland. She has a PhD in psychology, and she has also become an experienced gardener. She now lives with her husband and one daughter in Edinburgh, where they have a north facing, high-walled garden.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(1)
Guide to the lists of plants	7	(5)
Plants suitable for shallow soils over chalk	12	(12)
Plants suitable for acid soils	24	(15)
Plants suitable for heavy, clay soils	39	(12)
Plants suitable for dry soils in hot, sunny sites	51	(13)
Plants suitable for damp and wet soils (including plants suitable for shallow water)	64	(16)
Plants tolerant of dry shade	80	(5)
Plants tolerant of dense shade	85	(3)
Shrubs (3ft/90cm and over) and trees suitable for windswept, seaside gardens	88	(5)
Trees, shrubs, and woody climbers tolerant of atmospheric pollution	93	(11)
Plants suitable for ground cover	104	(22)
Climbing plants (including shrubs needing support in order to grow upright)	126	(1)
Hedging plants	127	(17)
Trees, shrubs, and woody climbers suitable for growing in containers	144	(9)
Plants suitable for crevices in paving	153	(7)
Plants with variegated leaves	160	(22)
Plants with gray, blue-gray, or silver leaves	182	(15)
Plants with purple, bronze, or red leaves	197	(12)
Plants with yellow or yellow-green leaves	209	(9)
Plants with decorative, green foliage	218	(16)
Plants with colorful, autumn foliage (including plants with evergreen leaves that change color in late autumn and winter)	234	(10)
Plants with aromatic foliage	244	(8)
Plants with ornamental fruit (including plants with ornamental seedheads or seed pods)	252	(10)
Plants with ornamental bark or twigs (including plants with ornamental canes)	262	(6)
Decorative Plants with flowers suitable for cutting (including plants with flowers or seedheads suitable for drying)	268	(28)
Plants with fragrant flowers	296	(19)
Winter-flowering plants	315	(7)
Plants with green flowers	322	(6)
``Black'' plants	328	(5)
Perennial plants (including woody plants) with a long, continuous flowering period	333	(17)
Index of botanical names	350	(13)
Index of common names	363	(3)
Plant sources/Acknowledgements/Photography credits	366