Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage

A book based on the garden at Brandywine Cottage offers inspiration and expert tips on how to create a beautiful, layered garden in every season, describing how to combine heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring that give way to Asian wildflowers in winter.
Following notes on how he became hooked on gardening as a child, Culp, the co-creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downington, Pennsylvania, who once worked at the famed Longwood Gardens, takes readers on a tour as he explains his approach to an all-season layered-look garden. Color photographs by Rob Cardillo are interspersed with discussion of different types of such gardens, practical tips on maintaining them, and his views on plant-collecting and beauty. The book features a two-page spread of the two-acre property, and a list of some of the author's favorite garden books. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)