This beautiful, evocative book is a must-have for every gardener. Init you will find details of over 200 plants that provide bold, architectural form, foundation and contrast in the garden, through texture, foliage and growth habit. This essential gardening companion presents over 250 plant entries, each featuring descriptions and important cultivation information, accompanied by a glorious full page photograph and other detail shots. Among tried and tested favourite structural plantings for hedging and perimeter planting you will also find the more unusual and exciting: for example, brameliads, succulents, grasses and flax, silver-leaved and variegated plants.