title: The Gardener's Color Palette: Paint Your Garden with 100 Extraordinary Flower Choices
author: Tom Fischer
description: Fischers handbook singles out 100 flowers to consider when the focus turns to colorful blooms for the garden. Icons indicate water and light requirements at a glance. And each entry merits an alluring plant portrait by photographer Nichols, while Fischer provides botanical pronunciation along with fundamental details, such as size of plants at maturity, bloom time, hardiness zones, and personal recommendations for the most desirable varieties. Its Fischers enthusiasm for flora that shines through, enlivening his introductions to color categories and the brief descriptive paragraphs accompanying each plant. Whether hes suggesting eye-catching plant pairings or offering cautionary advice about aggressive spreaders, Fischer will inspire gardeners to think about incorporating selections from the books outstanding bevy of perennials, bulbs and shrubs, and native and tender species. --Alice Joyce
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