The 500 best garden plants - Patrick Taylor

500 Best Garden Plants is a guide to the 500 best garden plants amongst the bewildering array available. This book is designed to allow you to choose the best plants for your garden and is packed with useful information on cultivation, hardiness, propagation and place of origin.

From the bewildering range of plants available to today's gardener, the well-known gardener Patrick Taylor selects and describes the plants that are the very best of their kind and would enhance any garden. For ease of reference the book is divided into five main sections - trees, shrubs, climbers, herbaceous perennials and bulbs. This also allows similar plants to be described together and thus planting solutions to be given for specific gardening problems. Natural species and forms are emphasized and only cultivars that have proved their worth are included . For each plant, there is advice on its best use in the garden and ideas for association plantings, as well as details of cultivation, hardiness, propagation and its origins. As well as a supreme gardener, Patrick Taylor is also an exquisite photographer and he has taken specially all of the photographs used to illustrate this book.