100 Great Garden Plants. 1975. (Reprint 1986). 109 colour photographs. 1 hardiness zone map. XXX, 208 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Frederick brings together the two disciplines of gardening and landscape design in a thoroughly practical and ingenious way, encouraging us to see plants (which here include everything from large trees to low ground covers) both as living objects pleasant to grow and as building blocks capable of giving form and character to a garden. Here are the 100 very choicest species Frederick has come across - and cultivated for himself - in a long career as a plantsman. They are carefully arranged according to landscape function and are illustrated with at least one full-colour photograph each. Some are reasonably well known, while many more will come as a surprise - Variegated Ground-Cover Bamboo, for example, or Purple-leaf Smoke-Tree. But by the time Frederick finishes discussing their attractions, how to grow them and use them in designing a garden, even something about their history, itis difficult to resist trying them out.