Two superb volumes sponsored by the Garden Club of America intended to encourage more adventurous selections of trees and shrubs for planting in gardens, parks, and other public places. The second volume presents more than 900 garden-worthy shrubs for every climate, pictured in both overall form and close-up detail.
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Don't let the magisterial title of this large volume, part of the Garden Club of America's ongoing series, put you off. The authors have provided a marvelous compendium of alternatives to the hardy perennials of American garden shrubs: rhododendrons, forsythias, and yews. Here are hundreds of lesser-known shrubs (along with the common varieties, of course), each presented with a photograph and a brief, authoritative text. Arranged alphabetically, the book includes a set of appendices categorizing all the cultivars by pest and disease resistance, soil preference, shade tolerance, and several other factors. This is a book that no comprehensive gardening library can be without.
From Publishers Weekly
Move over, taxus; watch out, juniper! These overused landscape choices will likely see less light as this volume from the Garden Club of America adds a major resource to the body of information on implementing vastly more interesting shrub materials for the landscape. Compiled through the efforts of both professional and volunteer gardeners under the direction of landscape designer Poor and photographer Brewster, this extensively illustrated, encyclopedic tome provides full descriptions?culture, landscape value and growing locale?of over 900 superior native and non-native species found throughout the country. A comprehensive section on roses describes the shrubs and the species, as well as the better-known hybrids. Notable are the nearly 700 photos, many of which show the specimen in the landscape rather than in detail. An appendix lists arboreta and gardens around the country where shrubs may be seen and codes them to shrub descriptions. The shrub index with nursery source codes and directory of nursery sources rounds out this invaluable guide. Garden Book Club main selection.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Impressive, lots of useful info not found in other books,
By Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Plants That Merit Attention: Shrubs (Hardcover)
I am very impressed with this unique book of over 900 shrubs that will add interest to any garden. The book starts with a glossary of botanical terms with b/w illustrations of the anatomy of leaves, flowers, fruits & conifers.Each shrub has botanical & common name, zone, native habitat, size, spread & shape as well as descriptions of leaves, flowers & fruit, plus soil & sunlight requirements, disease tolerance, transplanting & propagation advice. This is much more detailed than most reference books, giving information on winter appearance & landscaping value as well. There are 2-3 photos of each species including a full size view & leaf or flower close-ups. Appendices conveniently list shrubs by attributes including zone, light & soil requirements, & color of bloom. There is even information on sources for each species and gardens where each can be seen. Look for the companion book Plants That Merit Attention: Trees Vol. 1 which I also enjoyed.
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Semi-evergreen shrub growing moderately fast to 3-6 ft. high (taller in warmer climates), with dense, spreading, mutistemmed habit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
globose habit, multistemmed habit, winter aspect, tolerates some wind, best balled, introduced into cultivation, landscape value, prefers loam, marginal florets, dense branching habit, mounded habit, insect problems, softwood cuttings, massed plantings, semidouble flowers, rounded habit, persisting into winter, twiggy habit, acid loam, branched habit, prefers welldrained, dense habit, deciduous shrub, suckering habit, upright habit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Award of Garden Merit, United States, United Kingdom, North America, National Arboretum, Received Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal, Styer Award, Donald Egolf, Arnold Arboretum, Shrub Roses, Wayside Gardens, New Jersey, University of Washington, Explorer Series, Award of Merit, Winterthur Gardens, Rutgers University, North Carolina, Royal Botanic Gardens, Elwin Orton, Greer Gardens, Isabella Preston, New York, Ottawa Research Station, Royal Botanical Gardens New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Semi-evergreen shrub growing moderately fast to 3-6 ft. high (taller in warmer climates), with dense, spreading, mutistemmed habit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
globose habit, multistemmed habit, winter aspect, tolerates some wind, best balled, introduced into cultivation, landscape value, prefers loam, marginal florets, dense branching habit, mounded habit, insect problems, softwood cuttings, massed plantings, semidouble flowers, rounded habit, persisting into winter, twiggy habit, acid loam, branched habit, prefers welldrained, dense habit, deciduous shrub, suckering habit, upright habit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Award of Garden Merit, United States, United Kingdom, North America, National Arboretum, Received Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal, Styer Award, Donald Egolf, Arnold Arboretum, Shrub Roses, Wayside Gardens, New Jersey, University of Washington, Explorer Series, Award of Merit, Winterthur Gardens, Rutgers University, North Carolina, Royal Botanic Gardens, Elwin Orton, Greer Gardens, Isabella Preston, New York, Ottawa Research Station, Royal Botanical Gardens New!
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower: General, President. by Henry, Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Trees and Shrubs for Temperate Climates by Gordon Courtright in Back Flap
- The Year in Trees: Superb Woody Plants for Four-Season Gardens by Kim E. Tripp in Back Flap
- Rhododendrons in the Landscape by Sonja Nelson in Back Matter
- Fantastic Trees by Edwin A. Menninger in Back Flap
- South Carolina Gardener's Guide by Jim Wilson on page 207
- The Landscape Lighting Book by Janet Lennox Moyer in Back Matter
- The Urban Tree Book: An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town by Arthur Plotnik in Back Matter
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