Covers virtually every aspect of conifer use and culture in a format accessible to horticultural students and home gardeners alike … Magnificently highlighted by more than 250 striking colour photographs … Conifers are showcased in their full glory as richly textured, brilliantly coloured, and subtly structured plants deserving of a spot in every garden. - Booklist Fifteen years after this review, we present a revised and expanded edition of this highly acclaimed reference. Among the changes is the addition of a foreword by Michael A. Dirr, author of such classics as ‘Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia’. New content and updates are found in Why Conifers? , The Magic of Conifers , A Closer Look at Conifers and in the detailed practical section, Growing Conifers in Your Garden . This edition features the author’s comprehensively revised Directory of 600 conifers, so current that it includes the Australian Wollemia nobilis, a two million-year-old species only recently found and genetically identified, and available at a select few nurseries. Other new features are Conifers that Grow on You and The Mauergarten Story , which chronicles the author’s design of the garden at one of Germany’s premiere nurseries. Comprehensive in scope and lavishly illustrated, the book includes a directory of more than 600 conifers and expert advice. ‘Gardening with Conifers’ is a thorough and beautiful guide to coniferous trees and shrubs of the world. Stunning colour photographs show conifers young and old in a variety of environments, from small gardens to many-acred gardens. It reveals the magic that conifers bring to a garden and how they create structure and balance for year-round visual interest and colour. AUTHOR: Adrian Bloom is a nurseryman, gardener and writer, and chairman of Blooms Nurseries Ltd. in Norfolk, UK, home of Blooms of Bressingham nursery. He has 50 years of experience planting and maintaining the 17-acre Foggy Bottom garden, home to over 500 varieties of conifers. Richard Bloom is an award-winning photographer whose garden images appear regularly in House and Garden, RHS The Gardening Magazine, Fine Gardening and other such publications. 250 colour photos, index, appendices, bibliography, sources