The layered garden: design lessons for year-round beauty from brandywine cottage, hardcover/david l. culp

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 Culps 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 Culps 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.