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Designing
with Roses
Tony Lord
distributed by Bookwise
$NZ54.95
THIS is the paperback
version of Tony Lord's attractive and useful book, which has been
available in hardback since 1999. An English horticulturist and
writer, Lord's passion for "the queen of flowers" drives Designing
with Roses. In pushing the versatility of roses "for almost
every garden" (he allows that the genus has been frequently misused)
Lord's practical aesthetic covers 200 pages of scintillating pictures
and informative text.
There's detailed information
on shape, colour, scent, foliage, immunity levels, form and flowering
times. Lord writes for a wide readership, taking into account local
climates and native plants. There are chapters on Roses for Structure,
Roses as Punctuation, Roses in Mixed Borders and Roses for Wild
Gardens.
At the end of the book
is a gem for growers - Lord's "pick of the bunch". We get groupings
of roses for ground cover, bush roses (short and tall), shrub roses,
climbing, roses for arcades, pergolas and catenaries, roses for
autumn colour, roses for bedding and so on, in all 13 pages capped
by 27 roses that "should be more widely grown".
Whether you're a rosarian
or a dabbler, you won't be able go past this book.
Weekend
Gardener, Issue 141, 2004, Page 26
(reproduced in Horticulture
in New Zealand:
Journal of the Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture 2005, 8(1): 19)
Reproduced with permission from the former Weekend Gardener magazine. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the RNZIH
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