A detailed compilation of plants prepared by professional planting designers to inspire gardeners everywhere on how to create truly unique and successful gardens. Plants profiled include ground-covers all the way up to shrubs and trees. Most home gardeners, garden designers and landscape architects rely on a repertoire of well known plants, overlooking garden-worthy and high performing species. Plantology showcases rewarding plant species and also includes a plant thesaurus offering alternatives to the common plants generally used today. The book will invigorate the way that we think about plants and design our gardens.