{"id":2210,"date":"2014-03-12T00:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-14\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:28:20","slug":"designing-with-conifers","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/designing-with-conifers\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing with Conifers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_left\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/Designing-with-conifers.jpg\" alt=\"book\" align=\"left\" \/>Richard Bitner has written three books about conifers in the garden; I think the best is the most recent, <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=12261\"> &#8220;Designing with Conifers.&#8221; <\/a> Organized by notable features such as shape, color, or bark, the author uses his own photographs to illustrate a wide range of planting options. He clearly detests foundation plantings: &#8220;Why this mandatory dress code? It is time to break free of this tradition and change our practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Specialty situations such as hedges and topiary are included, along with some unexpected chapters on recommended Christmas trees, dwarf cultivars for garden railways, and&#8211;the most curious&#8211;traditional plantings for German graveyards. Although the author is from the East Coast, I thought his best work was a case study of a garden near Eugene, with a photographic dissection of the different purposes for the plants used in the landscape&#8211;quite instructive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bitner has written three books about conifers in the garden; I think the best is the most recent, &#8220;Designing with Conifers.&#8221; Organized by notable features such as shape, color, or bark, the author uses his own photographs to illustrate a wide range of planting options. He clearly detests foundation plantings: &#8220;Why this mandatory dress code? It is time to break free of this tradition and change our practices.&#8221; Specialty situations such as hedges and topiary are included, along with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/designing-with-conifers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Designing with Conifers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[211,22],"class_list":["post-2210","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-conifers","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}