Gardening with Tulips
While tulips planted in uninspired rows lack charm and look old-fashioned, resulting in a gardening cliche, skillful designers like King recognize the beauty and allure of a landscape in which tulips in myriad forms, scents, and colors emerge. Gardeners wishing to learn about the fascinating history and classifications of tulips will savor King's enthusiastic writing, and relish his expert advice on how to use perennials, shrubs, and grasses inventively to allow tulips to shine. Photographs illustrate beguiling examples of Dutch display gardens and bulb fields, ornate bedding schemes, and mixed plantings. Next King offers his top picks: 20 highly varied and excellent types of tulip species and hybrids. Lily-shaped, low-growing multiflowered pastels, and willowy Triumph blooms are among the groups described in depth and shown in breathtaking arrays. As a finale, King addresses the topic of floral color, thus completing a guide that should prove highly useful to any tulip lover serious about garden design.Alice JoyceCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved