bJoin two of the world's most influential garden designers, Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen, as they describe their ideal perennials, bulbs, grasses, ferns and small shrubs for your natural garden. This comprehensive compendium classifies these 1200 plants according to their behaviour, strengths and uses. b p An ideal plant is one that is both bbeautiful and robustb, performing reliably with very little input from the gardener - and bwithout artificial fertilizers and pesticidesb. Rather than striving for big, bold masses of colourful blooms that are vigorously pruned back as soon as they have finished flowering, their innovative approach to gardening involves choosing plants chiefly for their form - leaves, flower heads and stems included - which means they retain their bnatural beauty through all the seasonsb. Find within br ulli 1200 beautiful and reliable plants used by top garden designers lili Full descriptions and growing instructions lili Unique easy-to-follow classification acc