Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses: Expert Plant Choices and Dramatic Combinations for Year-Round Gardens Hardcover – April 21, 2010

I recently heard Adrian Bloom speak and was intrigued by his wonderful color combinations. This is a great book with absolutely wonderful pictures and explanations of 400 garden worthy perennials and grasses. He also has a section on his 12 favorite plants that one could use for their entire garden. The book explains where each plant originated,soil preferences and watering needs. The photos show some of the plants at various times of the year so one can see how they can add interest to the garden during different seasons. This author was the past owner of Blooms of Bressingham and his comments make this an enjoyable read along with a gorgeous and informative book. I intend to plant an area with a wave of summer color for next year.

We have here photos of Foggy Bottom and The Bressingham Gardens in Norfolk UK.Plenty of wonderful photos of perennials and grasses fill this new book. Whilst I personally did not discover anything new in the perennials and grasses depicted there, it was interested to see plants so well grown. The photo of aster frikartii 'Monch' was a delight to set eyes upon. Lots of the perennials mentioned were bred or release from Bloom's nursery, over the years. It would have been nice to see salvia 'Caradonna' and the new weird border phloxes in the photos as well as the new coloured echinaceas. A good book to look at and great to see the plants in the photos identified botanically not common names.Enjoy.

Very educational and well presented, excellent substance and format. Eclectic, and thorough.

An highly inspiring book :very well illustrated and the text is professionally written . I bought many perennials because of this book and so far ,no regrets . I even bought a second book as a gift for friends .

Beautiful book with wonderful descriptions of plants.

one of the best books I've gotten so far on gardening and techniques. loads of info

I bought this for my husband who is an avid gardener. He says the book is very good, and gave him ideas for ordering from his spring catalogs.

Bought as a gift for new homeowner with lots of room for gardens. Beautiful ideas for a great landscape.