About Michael King
Michael King is an expert on perennial plants, an author and photographer. Perennial meadows are important within the gardens he designs. This is his blog.-

Subscribe to Newsletter
eBooks
Unique offer only €4.99 Euros eachGRASS KING
Introduction – - – - – Perennial Meadows
Prairie Perennial Meadows planting schemes
Dry Steppe Perennial Meadows planting schemes
Open Perennial Meadows planting schemes
Wet Perennial Meadows planting schemes
Shady Perennial Meadows planting schemes
Recommended Affiliate – Photography
Tags
annuals complementary plants container gardening Dutch elm disease Dynamic plants e-Book Elm trees evergreens flower color flowers garden art garden design Gardening Books gardening web sites Garden maintenance garden moods Garden Photography grasses hedges Landscape Architecture matrix planting mulch naturalistic planting online garden course Oudolf Perennial Meadows Perennial Perspectives perennials Perennials from seed planting design professional training seeds Shrubs taking cuttings theme plants tulipsAward
Blogs I Am Reading
Grounded Design
MyGardenSchool
View from Federal Twist- Garden Diary: Green Foam DifferentiatingThe big picture, the foam of green. In a couple of weeks the carpet of perennials will be higher and show much more definition and interest. Space, height, gesture … reaching up and pulling the sky into the garden … One area where the intermingled planting is beginning to show emerging structure and form … […]
- Garden Diary: Green Foam Differentiating
Garden Guru
Gardening Gone Wild
Noel Kingsbury
Cold Climate Gardening
Hayefield – Nancy Ondra
The Patient Gardener
Blooming WriterArchives
Categories
Search this Site
Tag Archives: garden design
A Garden Month by Month
A month by month record of a small Dutch garden – my trial garden in Amsterdam February – Chaos March – Grabbing at straws April – Spring Tulips and more: May is green June – Pink puts in an appearance … Continue reading
A Garden Month by Month
A month by month record of a small Dutch garden – my trial garden in Amsterdam February – Chaos March – Grabbing at straws April – Spring Tulips and more: May is green June – Pink puts in an appearance … Continue reading
Garden Moods from Planting Design
Floriade 2012 – the mid summer review A garden show such as the Floriade which runs all summer gives its designers the opportunity to try out different planting ideas. During my first visit it was tulips that dominated and created … Continue reading
Posted in Floriade, Garden moods
Tagged complementary plants, garden design, garden moods, Perennial Meadows, planting design, tulips
1 Comment
Naturalistic Planting?
First published in ThinkinGardens last month, my article about new trends in planting design succeeded in triggering a lively debate about the meaning, not only of the term naturalistic planting, but the motives for garden making in the twenty first … Continue reading
Posted in Art in the garden
Tagged garden art, garden design, Landscape Architecture, naturalistic planting, planting design
Comments Off
GRASS KING – new gardening books
Grass, Gras, Graser, Siergrassen, Prachtig Gras These are just some of the titles of books and articles about ornamental grasses that I have written over the past twenty years or so. Prachtig Gras This was my first book, co-authored with … Continue reading








