Perfect Plant, Perfect Place [Hardcover]

Roy Lancaster (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 2002

Whether you are looking for a towering tree to mature in your garden or a geranium to flourish on your kitchen window sill, make sure you pick the perfect plant with this invaluable practical planner. Recommendations for every situation, soil and exposure condition, as well as expert advice on caring for your plants, will guarantee your garden and home bloom all year round.

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"Pick up a copy (of Perfect Plant, Perfect Place) and you'll see why it gets such high marks." --Sunset Magazine: "Fresh Dirt" blog --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Roy Lancaster is a highly respected horticulturalist, broadcaster and writer. He has authored many gardening titles, including What Plant Where?, What Perennial Where? and What Housplant Where? He writes regularly for the RHS journal, The Garden and is an RHS commitee member. Roy lives in Hampshire.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Plc P/B (February 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751335924
• ISBN-13: 978-0751335927
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,619,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Covers a diversity of subjects, July 11, 2002

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This review is from: Perfect Plant, Perfect Place (Paperback)

Perfect Plant Perfect Place by horticultural expert Roy Lancaster is a simply magnificent, detailed, and user friendly "how to" guide to gardening that positively overflows with more than 1800 vibrant color photographs. Packed from cover to cover with descriptions of and basic care instructions for recommended plants for indoor or outdoor gardening, Perfect Plant Perfect Place is the ideal book for beginning to intermediate gardeners seeking to select just the right species of beauty to best decorate a home, lawn, or greenhouse. A most thorough, practical and enjoyable presentation, Perfect Plant Perfect Place covers a diversity of subjects from acidic soil, raised beds, plants for paved areas, and herbs in the kitchen, to rock garden bulbs, aquatic plants, containers in the sun, and urban back yards. If you can have access to only one gardening guide, make it Roy Lancaster's Perfect Plant Perfect Place.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A plant for EVERY place!, May 14, 2003

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Patricia Tryon (Longmont, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Plant, Perfect Place (Paperback)

What's useful about this book is that it addresses many common siting problems for outdoor and indoor gardeners, alike: light (or lack of it) and moisture (or dryness), and various combinations of these; pollution issues; plants suitable for particular garden "jobs" such as screening, ground cover, or containers; perennials with a long flowering season or low allergens. There are also sections that address specific "shopping lists": shrubs with fragrant leaves or ornamental fruit; climbers with fragrant flowers; various kinds of bamboos -- and so much more. Although about three-fourths of the book addresses outdoor plants, a hundred pages or more are devoted to houseplants in categories such as: houseplants for beginners; plants tolerant of neglect; herbs for growing indoors; unusual foliage; orchids; and much, much more.

The photographs are numerous, colorful, and large enough to display useful detail. Annotations about each plant (and cross references for other suitable plants, which may be listed in other categories) provide enough information to get started: zone, size, light requirements.

Although one might quibble a little about whether information might have a bit more depth in places, this book is an indispensable guide simply because no other reference approaches its scope. In addition, as a DK book, it is put together in a way that can accept the inevitable flipping through (you will not be able to avoid simply browsing, believe me) as well as the harder work to which reference books are always put. It's a book to use and enjoy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Useful, April 1, 2007

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Lindsay A. Wilson "lindsaylegs22" (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Plant, Perfect Place (Paperback)

Because of this book, it gave my husband and I the direction and education to create the best yard in the neighborhood. While more detail would be nice, it is the best starting point for those who have no clue what they are doing or where to start, like me. I feel like an expert now.