The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage -- David L. Culp, Hardcover

"Gardenmaking, in its finest form, is a celebration of life and of love. David and his book epitomize this." --Lauren Springer Ogden

Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering--interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter.

The Layered Garden shows you how to recreate Culp's majestic display. It starts with a basic lesson in layering--how to choose the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden, and how to maintain it. To illustrate how layering works, Culp takes you on a personal tour through each part of his celebrated garden: the woodland garden, the perennial border, the kitchen garden, the shrubbery, and the walled garden. The book culminates with a chapter dedicated to signature plants for all four seasons.

Author: David L. Culp
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 10/16/2012
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 11.10h x 7.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781604692365

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2012 pg. 112
Booklist 11/01/2012 pg. 8