Plant personalities: Choosing and growing plants by character

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Plants can be flamboyant and voluptuous, funny and frivolous, even shy and retiring, but do they really have personalities? They most certainly do, according to plantswoman Carol Klein, who has been growing, propagating and showing plants for more than thirty years. In Plant Personalities, she demonstrates how understanding their needs and giving them the best conditions in which to thrive enables plants to develop their true characters - the qualities that make them what they are - or who they are.

Personality traits are as valueable as height, habit and flower colour when choosing which plants to grow and how to grow them. Good-natured, bread-and-butter plants contribute to the overall picture for months, while others are fleeting, shooting to stardom for a brief but breathtaking performance. Wafty whisperers add a touch of frivolity, bringing rustling rhythms to beds and borders. Feely-touchy plants add rich sensuality. Then there are those that just turn up from nowhere, gate-crashers who make the party go with a swing. Some plants reveal exquisite detail at close quarters, whereas the drama queens shout for everybody's attention, and demand it now.

Illustrated with superb photographs by Jonathan Buckley, Plant Personalities will inspire the most inexperienced new gardener and arouse the most jaded practitioner to see the magic in every plant.