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Brandywine Cottage is David Culp’s beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering — interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter.
The Layered Garden shows you how to recreate Culp’s majestic display. It starts with a basic lesson in layering — how to choose the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden, and how to maintain it. To illustrate how layering works, Culp takes you on a personal tour through each part of his celebrated garden: the woodland garden, the perennial border, the kitchen garden, the shrubbery, and the walled garden. The book culminates with a chapter dedicated to signature plants for all four seasons.
As practical as it is inspiring, The Layered Garden will provide you with expert information gleaned from decades of hard work and close observation. If you thought that a four-season garden was beyond your reach, this book will show you how to achieve that elusive, tantalizing goal.
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Great Garden Book David Culp has written a great garden book detailing his copious experiences building and maintaining Brandywine Cottage. A great read on a rainy dreary day to get you excited for all the possibilities gardening has to offer. Covers everything from his passion for the more unique and eclectic perennials and bulbs to the overall design and principles behind the garden. David truly grasps what it means to be a gardener and someone who lives life to the fullest. The secret to finding true joy in life and gardening is working your piece of land day after day, learning that space, watching how it grows and matures, watching as it defies you, inspires you and surprises you! Much like raising a child, you can’t control it, but you learn to work with it to establish your own paradise where what is meant to grow will and what you never could have imagined thrives!!
A Real Find What a beautiful book!Full of glorious photos and a lovely story of a delightful gardener and his garden to go with it.The titled made me first buy this American book; as I have always been interested in garden design and how the plants are planted to give a layered effect. The photos by Rob Cardillo, (incidentally he also did the photos for the book on the splendid American garden Chanticleer), are a joy to see and study how the plants associate with each other.Actually, its a book I find myself referring to a lot over my New Zealand early summer season, nice ideas on every page.A well recommended read for gardeners all over the world. Most likely be the best book of the decade for me. Enjoy.
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