Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2001 | Series: Botanica's Gardening

The fourth of the Botanica's Pocket series, this authoritative encyclopedia covers all aspects of the garden, from designing the style and structure, to propagating and caring for plants in a variety of growing environments. Supporting information, including hardiness zones, flowering times and space requirements, is arranged by plant groups for ease of reference. Whether the gardener is tending to a lawn, ornamental grasses, bamboo, fruit and nut trees, bulbs, corms, and tubers, cacti and succulents, vegetables and herbs, climbers, creepers, orchids, ferns, palms, cycads, or any combination, this book is the authority on making it all flourish.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1008 pages
• Publisher: Laurel Glen (September 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571455809
• ISBN-13: 978-1571455802
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,379,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Listing 2,000 plants and designed for the serious gardener, May 7, 2002

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia (Paperback)

Filled from cover to cover with beautiful, full-color photographs, Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia is an invaluable, indispensable, "user friendly", 1,008-page core reference work listing 2,000 plants and designed for the serious gardener or horticulturalist in search of just the right look for the garden or landscaping project. From flowers and shrubs to trees, lawns, cacti, ferns, and more, an immense variety of plants is listed, pictured, and described with a presentation of basic botanical facts and need-to-know information about growing each. A highly recommended reference for gardeners and plant lovers everywhere, Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia should be found on the gardening reference shelf of every personal and community library collection.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really Great for Compact Encyclopedia, June 10, 2004

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Ms. Antoinette P. Burnham (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia (Paperback)

This is the most useful gardening reference book on our shelf -- in great part, because you can actually carry it with you and (mostly) find what you are looking for in it -- with useful pictures!

I use this book when attending horticultural plant sales, etc., where a wide variety of species are available, and some culture info (how much sun, how much water, what kind of soil) is a critical success factor. This book has helped me avoid extreme errors on both ends of the spectum -- seduction by a beautiful but impossible (and expensive) plant, and overlooking a humble-on-the-shelf but PERFECT in the garden new addition.

In order to be portable, the book HAS to leave some stuff out, and that can be annoying in today's world of endless varieties and hybrids. There's an intro section on garden planning (and a good zone map), but the meat of this thing is the plant listings. Go for it -- this is a good one.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia, March 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia (Paperback)

This is a great gardening tool. This book is filled from cover to cover with fantastic colour photos and great details on width and height of growth, seasons of bloom, where to plant (sun or shade...), zones. This books has everything you need.
Chapters include:
Chapter 1 Creating your Garden.
Chapter 2 Annuals and perennials.
Chapter 3 Shrubs
Chapter 4 Trees
Chapter 5 Lawns, groundcovers, ornamental grasses and Bamboos.
Chapter 6 Fruit trees, Nut trees, and other fruit.
Chapter 7 Bulbs, corms and tubers.
Chapter 8 Cacti and Succulents.
Chapter 9 Vegetable and Herbs.
Chapter 10 Climber and creepers.
Chapter 11 Orchids.
Chapter 12 Ferns, Palms and cycads.
As you can see this book covers everything and more...