In the design of modern gardens all more often use decorative herbares are cereals, sedges, bamboos et al. It is difficult to remain indifferent, looking intently into the variety of forms and colourings, grace of foliage and inflorescences. Decorative herbares can be both an accent and background for other flowering and decorative plants in compositions.Authors of this "Atlas-determinant" Татьяна Коновалова and Natalia Шевырева, research workers Main botanical garden of WOUNDS, divided by the experience accumulated for 30 of work in the practical gardening."Decorative herbares" are the second book going out under this rank. From the first she differs in the бóльшим amount of kinds, including appearing on the Russian markets the last years new varieties. In addition, from a book herbares are excluded, not surviving checking for resistance to cold and decorativeness in the conditions of our gardens.Assortment reference book neat mainly for the middle stripe of Russia. Great number of colour-processes and botanical pictures with the detailed descriptions will help to be orientated you in the variety of kinds and sorts of decorative herbares, correctly to use them in a landscape design.