Timber Press is proud to add John Mickel's classic Ferns for American Gardens to its catalog. Unusual in its specific focus on cold-hardy ferns, the volume is based on Mickel's personal experience as a scientist and curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden as well as his years as a home gardener. The bulk of the book is an encyclopedic treatment of more than 400 kinds of ferns with 360 color photos in addition to numerous black and white images. Useful appendices, including updated source lists, make it clear why the American Horticultural Society chose this book as one of its 75 Great American Garden Books.
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Mickel is the curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden, and he has included more than 400 types of ferns in this excellent reference source. Mickel begins with chapters on fern structure, fern growing and gardening with ferns, and fern propagation. Each entry in the list of ferns (arranged alphabetically by genus) covers foliage, habitat, method of culture and propagation, and suggestions on garden use and plant combinations. Appendixes include a list of ferns grown under various conditions, a list of fern societies, and a glossary. The finished book, a Garden Book Club selection, will have 360 color photographs. George Cohen
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"Ferns for American Gardensby John T. Mickel, is both comprehensive and accessible. With detailed descriptions of more than 400 ferns and 350 photographs, this book offers enough to satisfy any fern collector, but there is plenty of practical advice for gardeners who just want to grow ferns."—American Gardener, May/June 2004 (American Gardener )
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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This is a well written and comprehensive study of ferns.,
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This book has excellent photographs and drawings, and describes in great detail the may species of ferns. The beginning of the book is technical, and defines the structural differences between fern types, how to recoginize the parts of a fern, etc. Anyone interested in growing wild or nursery-grown ferns should have this book in their collection. It will allow you to identify the ferns you have, or see in the forests.
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I love ferns and this is a great book full of usful info on where the plant comes from and how to grow them. The intro sections of the ferns are great, giving general info on the genus. The Photos are just fantastic and not just few but tons of them. Most of the entries have a little cheat sheet that gives the basics on every plant before the description. I especially liked the availability entry. It was all good and it felt easy to read. If I saw a fern in a book or store I could look it up and see if I should get it. A great job.
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The very best book on fern gardening.,
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John Mickel writes on ferns of the world that can be grown in American gardens. He writes first and foremost on how to grow any and all of the many ferns he describes and illustrates. This is not only accurate, it is almost a necessity for the fern or shade gardener.
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Ferns have been with us for more than 300 million years and in that time the diversification of their form has been phenomenal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rhizome habit, frond length, basiscopic pinnules, bipinnate blade, pinna tips, fern cultivation, overlapping pinnae, basiscopic side, frond apex, fertile erect, lower blade surface, round sori, basal pinnae, stipe scales, hardiness zones, noncalcareous rocks, dissected fronds, beadlike segments, hardy ferns, frond tip, bulblet bladder fern, bipinnate fronds, basal pinnules, brown stipe, lowest pinnae Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, New York, New Zealand, South America, British Columbia, Fern Structure, Propagating Ferns, British Isles, West Indies, Fiddlehead Forum, Reginald Kaye, North Carolina, Old World New!
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Ferns have been with us for more than 300 million years and in that time the diversification of their form has been phenomenal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rhizome habit, frond length, basiscopic pinnules, bipinnate blade, pinna tips, fern cultivation, overlapping pinnae, basiscopic side, frond apex, fertile erect, lower blade surface, round sori, basal pinnae, stipe scales, hardiness zones, noncalcareous rocks, dissected fronds, beadlike segments, hardy ferns, frond tip, bulblet bladder fern, bipinnate fronds, basal pinnules, brown stipe, lowest pinnae Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, New York, New Zealand, South America, British Columbia, Fern Structure, Propagating Ferns, British Isles, West Indies, Fiddlehead Forum, Reginald Kaye, North Carolina, Old World New!
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- Smithsonian Institution (Checkerboard Symbols, Landmarks and Monuments) by Tamara L. Britton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ferns to Know and Grow by F. Gordon Foster in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Field guide by Terry Collins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The British Isles (Cambridge Regional Geography) by A. V. Hardy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Encyclopaedia of Ferns by David L. Jones in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Consider the Leaf: Foliage in Garden Design by Judy Glattstein on page 128, and Back Matter
- Fern Grower's Manual: Revised and Expanded Edition by Barbara Joe Hoshizaki in Back Matter
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