Planting Design for Dry Gardens
Olivier Filippi’s waterwise planting designs offer a beacon of hope to gardeners in dry regions. His low-level plant combinations are low-maintenance, eco-friendly and redefine the conventional distinction between lawn and borders. Discover flowering carpets, green terraces and gravel gardens to die for and an A-Z that includes over 200 plants that thrive in dry conditions.
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“A generously illustrated, thought-provoking and practical book. A must-have for anybody interested in dry and Mediterranean gardens.”
— Jackie Herald, Garden Design Journal
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What reviewers said.
This is a generously illustrated, thought-provoking and practical book. It is a must-have for anybody interested in creating dry and low-maintenance gardens.
— Jackie Herald, Garden Design Journal
To be referred to time and time again for inspiration.
— Robert Brett, The Plantsman
Olivier Filippi.
Olivier Filippi and his wife Clara run Pépinière Filippi on a windswept site overlooking the lagoons of the Étang du Thau, near Mèze in the south of France. Their nursery — established in the 1980s and built into a reference for Mediterranean horticulture — now holds a collection of some fifteen hundred species and varieties, and propagates around two hundred thousand plants a year for designers and gardeners working with drought.
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