Customer Reviews

Plant Personalities: Choosing and Growing Plants by Character

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First, I think this would be a marvelous gift for a gardener. The color photos are lush and lovely as the plants themselves and the text entertains -- at least, it would entertain gardeners.

Unfortunately for me, I picked up this book because I thought it would contain more than the generalizations (prickly customers, drama queens, and seductive sophisticates) of the categories. You can see the problem immediately: one gardener's "dainty and detailed" is another's "gatecrasher". This is an interesting idea to play with and the close-up photos provide an opportunity to get to know a number of plants (though you should not expect anything very exotic here), but I think the book was not intended to be deep in information and, indeed, it is not. If one were to say that this is a "novel" approach, by contrast I might say that although I am happy to receive such things as gifts, I prefer to spend my own money on books that are more like textbooks or references.

As usual, Timber Press has published a sturdy book that should hold up well. The binding is tight and the format itself is not so large as to endanger the binding.

Three stars, then, which I am quite willing to have read as a metric of my own rather stodgy and bookish gardening personality.

I love to shoot flowers, I bought the book for photos, and found text well written, and valuable. It took me 1 day after gifting it to order one for myself