Baldassare Mineo is owner of Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery in Medford, Oregon, one of the world's great sources of plants for rock gardens. Mineo's own photographs are supplemented with many by the renowned horticulturist Fritz Kummert. This authoritative includes rare and unusual plants as well as proven, readily available garden performers.
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"A truly inspiring book."
—National Gardener, October 2002 (National Gardener )
"The information is encyclopedic, and the illustrations superb."
—John Van de Water, Newark Star-Ledger, November 5, 2000 (Newark Star-Ledger )
"Beginning or fully-matured rock gardeners can benefit here. More than 1,300 plants are mentioned along with 1,350 color photos."
—Dale Langford, Rocky Mountain News, October 3, 2000 (Denver Rocky Mountain News )
—National Gardener, October 2002 (National Gardener )
"The information is encyclopedic, and the illustrations superb."
—John Van de Water, Newark Star-Ledger, November 5, 2000 (Newark Star-Ledger )
"Beginning or fully-matured rock gardeners can benefit here. More than 1,300 plants are mentioned along with 1,350 color photos."
—Dale Langford, Rocky Mountain News, October 3, 2000 (Denver Rocky Mountain News )
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An illustrated encyclopedia comprising 1340 color photos detailing alpines & other suitable plants for rock garden settings by the owner of one of the world's great nursery sources.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Seeing is believing,
By Barbara A Winch (Applegate, Oregon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
One of the most difficult parts of selecting rock garden plants is anticipating what they will look like in one's own rock garden. The pictures and descriptions in Baldassare Mineo's book are extraordinarily accurate, interesting and authoritative. We've seen Mineo's thrilling gardens and know that he understands his subject from the scree up! This book will become a classic.
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Very Beautiful Book,
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This review is from: Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Clearly a work of long effort and love, this magnificent volume shows what'you've always wanted to grow in your rock garden'...including some very rare, very astonishing plants. The pics are truly beautiful and show the plants as well as the flowers. The only thing it seems to lack is a discussion of some of the finer points of culture of some of these gems, but then again this isn't purely a book about rock garden culture. For that, look for Linc Foster's Rock Gardening or Reginald Farrer's classic The English Rock Garden.
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This review is from: Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
There is a rock garden plant for everyone and many of them are represented in this catalog, uh, I mean book. It is not a catalog because there is no certainty that you will ever be able to acquire, much less keep and grow, the particular plant that you love at first sight in this book.
Since alpines are found all over the world and represent an assortment of ecological communities there is not a classifiable and finite family of plants. In this book you will constantly feel that you are only skimming the surface of a much much larger subject. There is barely enough information to help you keep the plant alive until you do learn it better. There are thumbnail images with thumbnail descriptions. Like I said, it is a glossy availability list. Only they are not necessarily available. But they are so cute! All that is needed is a properly situated shelf with a few artistic pots and you too can nurture a tiny corner of paradise. It scales up from there indefinitely, until the problem is bringing your face close enough to fully appreciate each plant. Well, then there is the problem of keeping them alive. You are the artisan of rocks and gravel. These plants are your fragile gems.
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Rock gardeners appreciate nature because in nature, rock garden plants are everywhere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evergreen shrub for sun, gritty scree, part shade, evergreen shrublet, winter wetness, humusrich soil, alpine house, bulb frame, welldrained soil, limestone scree, rock garden plants, crevice garden, perennial orchid, scree soil, gritty soil, evergreen perennial, garden hybrid, large rock garden, perennial fern, evergreen subshrub, woody rootstock, bulbous perennials, considerable sun, naturally occurring hybrid, peat bed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fritz Kummert, North America, United States, Balkan Peninsula, New Zealand, British Columbia, Franz Hadacek, Rocky Mountains, Armen Gevjan, Caucasus Mountains, South Africa, Siskiyou Mountains, Panayoti Kelaidis, Sierra Nevada, Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery, New Mexico, Color Encyclopedia, Falkland Islands, South America, Atlas Mountains, Austrian Alps, Mossy Hybrids, Section Iris, Section Lophiris, Subgenus Scorpiris New!
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Rock gardeners appreciate nature because in nature, rock garden plants are everywhere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evergreen shrub for sun, gritty scree, part shade, evergreen shrublet, winter wetness, humusrich soil, alpine house, bulb frame, welldrained soil, limestone scree, rock garden plants, crevice garden, perennial orchid, scree soil, gritty soil, evergreen perennial, garden hybrid, large rock garden, perennial fern, evergreen subshrub, woody rootstock, bulbous perennials, considerable sun, naturally occurring hybrid, peat bed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fritz Kummert, North America, United States, Balkan Peninsula, New Zealand, British Columbia, Franz Hadacek, Rocky Mountains, Armen Gevjan, Caucasus Mountains, South Africa, Siskiyou Mountains, Panayoti Kelaidis, Sierra Nevada, Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery, New Mexico, Color Encyclopedia, Falkland Islands, South America, Atlas Mountains, Austrian Alps, Mossy Hybrids, Section Iris, Section Lophiris, Subgenus Scorpiris New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Rock Gardens by Wilhelm Schacht in Front Matter
- Manual of Alpine Plants by Will Ingwersen in Front Matter
- Wisley Garden by Royal Horticultural Society on page 248
- Rock Gardening (Concorde Gardening) by Will Ingwersen in Front Matter
- Rock Garden Design and Construction by North American Rock Garden Society on page 26, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Book of Blue Flowers by Robert Geneve in Back Matter
- The Plant Hunter's Garden: The New Explorers and Their Discoveries by Bobby J. Ward in Back Matter
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