The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance

Informationen zum Autor Ken Druse is a celebrated lecturer and an award-winning author and photographer who has been called the guru of natural gardening by the New York Times. He is best known for his 20 garden books published over the past 25 years. He lives in New Jersey.Ellen Hoverkamp won the Garden Writers Association's top award for photography for Natural Companions and has been using a flatbed scanner as a camera since 1997. She lives in Connecticut. Klappentext Combining gardening, garden design, history, culture, and science in an accessible text, Druse shows the reader how to create plantings that offer rich sensory experiences. He provides the last word on a topic of interest to gardeners everywhere. He describes categories of fragrance, from sweet to citrus; introduces the key plants that fill the air, focusing not only on familiar flowers like roses, but also trees and shrubs; and gives examples of garden designs that offer harmonious scentual delights Zusammenfassung A complete illustrated survey of fragrance in the garden by America's leading garden writer Popular garden writer Ken Druse offers a complete survey of fragrance in the garden, in a major work filled with new knowledge. He arranges both familiar and unusual garden plants, shrubs, and trees into 12 categories, giving gardeners a vastly expanded palate of scents to explore and enjoy, and he also provides examples of garden designs that offer harmonious scentual delights. Ellen Hoverkamp contributes her artful botanical images of flowers and plants discussed in the text. These are accompanied by Druse's award-winning garden photographs, to create a book that is as beautiful to look at as it is informative and evocative to read.

Autorentext

Ken Druse is a celebrated lecturer and an award-winning author and photographer who has been called “the guru of natural gardening” by the New York Times. He is best known for his 20 garden books published over the past 25 years. He lives in New Jersey.

Ellen Hoverkamp won the Garden Writers Association’s top award for photography for Natural Companions and has been using a flatbed scanner as a camera since 1997. She lives in Connecticut.

Klappentext

Combining gardening, garden design, history, culture, and science in an accessible text, Druse shows the reader how to create plantings that offer rich sensory experiences. He provides the last word on a topic of interest to gardeners everywhere. He describes categories of fragrance, from sweet to citrus; introduces the key plants that fill the air, focusing not only on familiar flowers like roses, but also trees and shrubs; and gives examples of garden designs that offer harmonious scentual delights

Zusammenfassung

A complete illustrated survey of fragrance in the garden by America's leading garden writer Popular garden writer Ken Druse offers a complete survey of fragrance in the garden, in a major work filled with new knowledge. He arranges both familiar and unusual garden plants, shrubs, and trees into 12 categories, giving gardeners a vastly expanded palate of scents to explore and enjoy, and he also provides examples of garden designs that offer harmonious scentual delights. Ellen Hoverkamp contributes her artful botanical images of flowers and plants discussed in the text. These are accompanied by Druse's award-winning garden photographs, to create a book that is as beautiful to look at as it is informative and evocative to read.