Fine Foliage: Elegant Plant Combinations for Garden and Container - Hardcover

"Fine Foliage" is a visual treat that will inspire you with dazzling combinations for containers and gardens. This is a great user-friendly design resource, as Karen Chapman and Christina Salwitz explain why each combination works - bringing artistic design within easy reach of all gardeners.
- Debra Prinzing, co-author of "The 50 Mile Bouquet"
It's not just about flowers anymore. The big idea for containers and gardens today is foliage combinations-- creating the perfect marriage of foliage colors, textures and shapes for year-round enjoyment. In Fine Foliage, garden designers Karen Chapman and Christina Salwitz showcase more than 60 inspired plant partnerships. Each combination is given a two-page spread with color photographs of the grouping and the individual plants within it. Plant details include sun or shade requirements, seasons, zones, soil preference, and plant characteristics and care. Easy-to-use instructions allow gardeners of all skill levels to bring elegant, expert design and style to their gardens and patios.

"Michigan Gardener", September-October 2013 issue
Fine Foliage is one of Amazon's "Best of the Year" Garden Books.

It's not just about flowers anymore. The big idea for containers and gardens today is foliage combinations-- creating the perfect marriage of foliage colors, textures and shapes for year-round enjoyment. In Fine Foliage, garden designers Karen Chapman and Christina Salwitz showcase more than 60 inspired plant partnerships. Each combination is given a two-page spread with color photographs of the grouping and the individual plants within it. Plant details include sun or shade requirements, seasons, zones, soil preference, and plant characteristics and care. Easy-to-use instructions allow gardeners of all skill levels to bring elegant, expert design and style to their gardens and patios.

"Michigan Gardener", September-October 2013 issue
It's not just about flowers anymore. The big idea for containers and gardens today is foliage combinations-- creating the perfect marriage of foliage colors, textures and shapes for year-round enjoyment. In Fine Foliage, garden designers Karen Chapman and Christina Salwitz showcase more than 60 inspired plant partnerships. Each combination is given a two-page spread with color photographs of the grouping and the individual plants within it. Plant details include sun or shade requirements, seasons, zones, soil preference, and plant characteristics and care. Easy-to-use instructions allow gardeners of all skill levels to bring elegant, expert design and style to their gardens and patios.

"Michigan Gardener", September-October 2013 issue
Fine Foliage is one of Amazon's ""Best of the Year"" Garden Books.
It s not just about flowers anymore. The big idea for containers and gardens today is foliage combinations creating the perfect marriage of foliage colors, textures and shapes for year-round enjoyment. In Fine Foliage, garden designers Karen Chapman and Christina Salwitz showcase more than 60 inspired plant partnerships. Each combination is given a two-page spread with color photographs of the grouping and the individual plants within it. Plant details include sun or shade requirements, seasons, zones, soil preference, and plant characteristics and care. Easy-to-use instructions allow gardeners of all skill levels to bring elegant, expert design and style to their gardens and patios.
"Michigan Gardener," September-October 2013 issue

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"Fine Foliage: Elegant Plant Combinations for Garden and Container does much more than celebrate gorgeous foliage specimens, which by now are enjoying the popularity once reserved for blooming plants. The book groups foliage plants (and the occasional bloomer) that have complementary and contrasting features and can live together happily in the climate they were meant for. If you are looking for groupings based on color, texture, light needs, zone or any other characteristic, Fine Foliage makes it easy to find what you need. More importantly, these combinations have been proven successful by the authors themselves, who have tried many mixes before narrowing to these ones."--Sarah Ristorcelli "Eye on the Garden ""

Whether you are a landscape designer who creates containers for your clients or a home gardener, reading this book is a must. -Bobbie Schwartz, Bobbie's Green Thumb

Christina Salwitz is a design professional who successfully translates design principles into stunning plantings. Her ability to combine color and form creates beautiful garden tapestries. -Patty Dunning, Horticulture magazine content leader

Christina Salwitz shares her considerable design talents with fellow gardeners. Those looking to take their garden creativity beyond the usual blooms and into the realm of foliage composition will be well rewarded. -Eric Liskey, Deputy Editor, Gardens & Outdoor Living, Better Homes and Gardens

In her garden designs and containers, Christina conbines plants in ways that are simple yet asthetically delightful and innovative. Christina's work has made such an impression on me, whenever I see a leaf with great variegation, texture or vining, I think of her. -Debra Lee Baldwin, author of three books on using succulent plants in garden design

Foliage comes in a mind-boggling variety of color, shape and growth habit. But which ones complement each other and work best for the many garden situations people have? Fine Foliage gives the home gardener 60+ examples of plant combinations that work for every purpose, whether in sun or shade, path or meadow, porch or poolside. Each plant combination is introduced with an on-site photograph and “Why This Works” text, accompanied by individual close-up photos and quick-tip info about care, site, soil, zone and season – a complete “recipe” that even a beginner gardener can follow. Fine Foliage brings elegant, expert design and style to the garden and patio. Full color photographs throughout. Includes an index.
Fine Foliage was named one of Amazon’s “Best of the Year” garden books for 2013.
The Garden Writers Association has recognized Fine Foliage with a 2014 Silver Award of Achievement