Plants for American Landscapes is a superb practical guide to the identification, selection, and cultivation of over a thousand of the most popular and dependable ornamental plants grown in the United States. With more than a century of collective experience in landscape architecture and horticulture, the authors share their intimate knowledge of flowers, foliage, fruit, and barks, as well as their insights concerning each plant’s unique attributes. Their succinct, fact-filled, vivid descriptions present both essential material and fascinating tidbits about which plants are suited to particular environments. Eight hundred full-color photographs display the plants in their natural settings.
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Recalling paper dolls and their cut-out clothes, The Garden Pack by Sue Phillips (Well-Planned Garden) offers a three-dimensional planning kit with which gardeners can design and visualize their gardens. Included are a fold-out grid; cardboard plant cards representing 265 trees, shrubs and flowers; sheets representing ground covers; cut-outs for boundaries (walls, hedges and fences); and a soil testing kit. An accompanying book discusses sites, soil, light and moisture requirements and includes a plant directory. (Viking, $24.95 48p ISBN 0-670-86963-5; Nov.)
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Three experts in landscape architecture and horticulture have produced this handy guide to more than 1000 dependable landscape plants used in American gardening. General information is followed by more specific information for individual ornamentals within a given group of plants. Individual plant descriptions include the plant's environmental requirements. Numerous color photos add to the book's value for those unfamiliar with the appearance of the plant. A helpful resource for students in horticulture and landscape architecture who are studying standard ornamental plants in their profession, this is also a valuable tool for home gardeners selecting plants for their home landscapes. (Photos and index not seen.)?Dale Luchsinger, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Wonderful Resource,
This review is from: Plants for American Landscapes (Paperback)
This is a fantasic reference book. You will find yourself returning to it again and again. The information is precise and accurate, the fabulous photos are collected from gardens spanning the globe - a plus in my book. I currently live in humid Louisiana deep south, but this book has been helpful to me in garden situations from the dry Desert Southwest through mid-Appalacian mountains. This book deserves a place in any serious garden library.
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Quality Plant Images, Poor Reference,
By J. Rawyk (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews
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Poorly organized with no discernible logic. The lack of a sectioned table of contents is irritating. Works more like a coffee-table book than a serious reference book. Common Name given first, Latin name subtitled, with height and spread in feet and zone hardiness below, followed by a short general description describing habit, form, flowering, etc. Photographs are noteworthy and probably the only merit of this book.
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A popular and easily grown semievergreen shrub, the glossy abelia produces clusters of fragrant white to slightly pink funnel-shaped flowers from May until killing frost. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
upright oval form, native deciduous shrub, native deciduous tree, prefers full sunlight, strong horizontal branches, dark blue green foliage, yellow autumn color, fragrant creamy white flowers, mounding form, white double flowers, lustrous dark green, semievergreen shrub, mounding shrub, red autumn color, goldenrain tree, most garden soils, large deciduous shrub, fertile moist, understory growth, welldrained soil, partial shade, mass plantings, small flowering tree, large evergreen shrub, more cultivars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A popular and easily grown semievergreen shrub, the glossy abelia produces clusters of fragrant white to slightly pink funnel-shaped flowers from May until killing frost. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
upright oval form, native deciduous shrub, native deciduous tree, prefers full sunlight, strong horizontal branches, dark blue green foliage, yellow autumn color, fragrant creamy white flowers, mounding form, white double flowers, lustrous dark green, semievergreen shrub, mounding shrub, red autumn color, goldenrain tree, most garden soils, large deciduous shrub, fertile moist, understory growth, welldrained soil, partial shade, mass plantings, small flowering tree, large evergreen shrub, more cultivars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Deep South, Lower South, North Carolina, Middle South, North America, Arnold Arboretum, National Arboretum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, San Jose New!
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- Perennial Garden Color by William C. Welch in Back Matter
- Weeping Willow (Aerial Fiction) by Ruth White on page 211
- Garden Bulbs for the South by Scott Ogden in Back Matter
- Encyclopaedia of Ferns by David L. Jones in Back Matter
- Herbaceous Ornamental Plants by Steven Still in Back Matter
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