Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants: How to Grow Dramatic Flowers for Your Patio, Sunroom, Windowsill, and Outdoor Spaces [Hardcover]

Byron E. Martin (Author), Laurelynn G. Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Logee's Greenhouses is renowned worldwide as a leader in the horticultural industry, and since 1892 has been growing and selling over a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use. In this book, the third-generation owners of Logee's share the 109-year-old family secrets on how to grow exotic flowers. A no-nonsense approach to tropical plant care, coupled with exquisite photographs and inspirational messages, makes this book outstanding in its field. Designed to take the fear out of growing exoctics and tropicals, the text features 80 of the most popular genera and gives detailed information about how to grow, care for, prune and winter-over these beautiful plants. Specialties include dramatic flowering plants, fragrant plants, angel's trumpets, begonias, passion flowers, gesneriads, jasmines, hibiscus, and hoyas featured in brilliant, large-format color photographs. Also included are sections on soils! and fertilzers, insects and disease, containers and potting, pruning, and trouble shooting. A truly unique gardening choice for any plant lover.

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About the Author

Byron Martin is an expert horticulturist and lecturer who turned Logee's Greenhouses from a family business into an internationally-known horticultural company. He and his wife, Laurelynn Martin, have published numerous articles about their exotic plants. They jointly run Logee's Greenhouses, coined by the Washington Post as the "grandfather of the horticultural industry.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Willow Creek Press (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572233990
• ISBN-13: 978-1572233997
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,206,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Optional for advanced gardeners, December 1, 2010

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Eileen Schwab (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants: How to Grow Dramatic Flowers for Your Patio, Sunroom, Windowsill, and Outdoor Spaces (Paperback)

I consider this to be a book for a beginning gardener. I didn't get new information out of it and I'm disappointed that they didn't identify many more types of plants, since Logees has a huge and fascinating inventory. Many of their plants are tropical or subtropical, I thought for sure that there would be some mention of helpful hints for growing tropicals indoors or in colder climates but I didn't see any. I didn't see much in the way of specifics at all. The photography is great, and I don't regret buying it, but I thought it was overpriced for the level of content it contained.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful blooming house plants, February 28, 2008

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Kathy Busch (Sandwich, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants: How to Grow Dramatic Flowers for Your Patio, Sunroom, Windowsill, and Outdoor Spaces (Paperback)

This is a beautiful book featuring 80 different plants. The plants in this book are listed in alphabetical order with each plant having it's own section. Each section starts with an easy to read list of important facts. Some of the facts on the list are: Botanical Name, Common Name, Origin, Light, Minimum Temperature, Soil and several others items.

There is also a section called Unique Characteristic/Other Growing Tips: In this section they go into more detail about the plants and give helpful information that will make it easier for you to grow. They talk about different varieties of the same plant and have pictures of them. Some genera only have one variety while others have too many to include all of them.

All of the plants in this book are blooming plants and all of the pictures are of the plants in bloom. There are no green plants. Some of the plants are easy to find locally, but others will be found only in specialties greenhouse or by mail order. Logee's Greenhouses carries all of the plants in this book. If you love blooming plants that are out of the ordinary you should love this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, June 5, 2010

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I love this book. It provides gorgeous pictures with a breakdown of growing conditions, propagation and much more for many tropical houseplants. It allowed me to learn about plants I had never considered trying and that are not found in typical houseplant books.