Best Garden Plants for Virginia [Paperback]

Richard Nunally (Author), Laura Peters (Author), Richard Nunnally (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2006 | Series: Best Garden Plants For...

A great new gardening book for Virginia! This handy guide is packed with the best plant varieties youíll want for your garden: annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, vines, roses, bulbs, ornamental grasses and herbs.Small enough to take to the garden center or nursery, yet filled with beautiful photos, it contains all the gardening information you need to decide which plants to select and how to care for them. Includes information on habitat, height and spread; plant features and flower colors; information on soil, light and water; and tips on best use of the plant in your garden.

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About the Author

RICHARD NUNNALLY is a well-known and beloved gardening personality in Virginia. He is host of WCVE TVís gardening show Virginia Home Grown and is a gardening columnist with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He also works as the Extension Agent Emeritus with Chesterfield County. LAURA PETERS is a certified master gardener with more than 16 years of experience as a retail gardening consultant. She also has researched and written nineteen gardening books. Her practical knowledge of contemporary plant varieties and gardening products covers almost every aspect of the horticulture industry. Her areas of interest include roses, alpines and exotic perennials, as well as Japanese and indoor gardening.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing (February 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9768200138
• ISBN-13: 978-9768200136
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good plant selection guide for beginning gardeners, July 31, 2006

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W. Oliver (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Garden Plants for Virginia (Paperback)

This attractive handbook is a basic guide for beginning gardeners for selecting plants that will do well in the state. Plants are arranged alphabetically in sections of Annuals, Perennials, Trees & Shrubs, Roses, Vines & Groundcovers, Bulbs, Corms & Tubers, Herbs and Ferns & Ornamental Grasses. Each plant profile includes a nice color photo and minimal information on growing conditions, tips and cultivar recommentations. An okay guide for the beginning gardener - if you are looking for in-depth information, you may want to look elsewhere.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The handiest Virginia plant book I've found, February 23, 2007

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Iris O. Moon (Florida) - See all my reviews
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While this book is not a comprehensive volume, it does cover the most common landscape plants in the Virginia landscape. There is a strong emphasis on older varieties of plants and those that are BEST suited to the climate conditions of Virginia.

For a new resident of Virginia who likes to do amatuer landscaping, this book is indispensible.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars little information and less that it wants to be, February 13, 2010

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Sonja Corterier "yraile" (bonn) - See all my reviews
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the book is called best garden PLANTS for virginia but that is the first misstatement of this publication. Among other things it leaves out Vegetables and fruits entirely.

The blurb on the back calls it practical and inspiring and it is also not that at all.

It is not practical, because it doens't even give you as much information as can be found on teh back of a seedling package in various instances. It also doesn't even mention anything about the plant's toxicity, which is a necessary information for garden plants if you have children.

Inspiring?

It is an incomprehensive list of plants which may or may not grow well in Virginia's versatile terrain and the writing is as inspirational as the back of an unimaginative seedling package.

I don't doubt that putting this thing together was quite some work for the people involved and finding pictures of all the plants from stock (because they are sure not all actually been taken for this book) will have been a challenge BUt it would have taken littel more than what they had done to turn this book into something really useful I fear the *writers* were held hostage by teh format which would have been serevvd better by smaller pictures and more information.

I am thoroughly disapointed.