Loaded with plants that conjure visions of tropical islands and pina coladas, Paradise Found makes real every gardener's dream of living in a private Eden.
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This book...gives valuable information about the author's experiences with a wide variety of tropical and 'tropical-style' plants. (Washington Post )
Are you returning from a trip to a tropical paradise and do you want to recreate that feeling in your life and garden? With over 200 photos of tropical plants, Winter has found plants that look tropical but many are winter hardy that you can use. (Www.Gardenclub.Org )
...offers step-by-step instructions for creating a private Eden. (Publisher's Weekly )
The bulk of this lavishly illustrated book is a list of 134 plants, each with a photograph and instructions on planting and growing. (Foreword )
Are you returning from a trip to a tropical paradise and do you want to recreate that feeling in your life and garden? With over 200 photos of tropical plants, Winter has found plants that look tropical but many are winter hardy that you can use. (Www.Gardenclub.Org )
...offers step-by-step instructions for creating a private Eden. (Publisher's Weekly )
The bulk of this lavishly illustrated book is a list of 134 plants, each with a photograph and instructions on planting and growing. (Foreword )
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5.0 out of 5 stars
OUTSTANDING BOOK ON TROPICAL GARDENING,
By susan (Dallas,TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Paradise Found: Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard (Paperback)
This is the best book on tropical gardening I have ever found. It has beautiful pictures & also lists what plants to group together to make a showplace out of your yard. Also tells you which plants are cold hardy! The cold hardiness is something that a lot of books fail to mention, which means constantly looking through reference books for more info. This book goes with me everytime I go to purchase plants. Excellent book!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent how-to book on tropical garden plants!,
By Steve Waddell "Steve" (Hampton Roads, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paradise Found: Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard (Paperback)
This book is an excellent collection of tropical garden plant types and the zones they do best in. It will give you an idea of the zones many tropical plants and sub-tropical plants will do best in, however, some will even do well outside of the specified zones if they are in a microclimate. It also contains information on how to propogate many of the plants therein.
If I had one bit of advice for the author, it would be interesting to re-organize the book by zone, such that those who live in various zones could easily find which tropical style plants are best suited for their particular zone (as well as which are in an adjacent zone and therefore might make it if given a bit of a micro-climate). Oveall, a great addition to my tropical gardening library!
4.0 out of 5 stars
informative, compact read,
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This review is from: Paradise Found: Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard (Paperback)
I was looking for a book to help choose plants for my temperate, tropical look garden. I was hoping for a book to suggest different types of plants that give the tropical look. This book does just that.
This is a very easy read book, each plant has a picture, lists family, origin, relatives (found some surprises there) how to propagate, what zone it thrives in and how much light the plant needs. It goes on to describe how best to plant it, soil type, how to look after it to keep it looking good. Landscape Application is also handy i.e describes what to plant as companion plants. Also gives recommended varieties. Only problem, top portion of first 30 pages came away from the spine binding, am expecting a replacement by Amazon in next few day.
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