Rock Gardening: A Guide to Growing Alpines and Other Wildflowers in the American Garden (Timber horticultural reprint series) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

H. Lincoln Foster (Author), Laura L. Foster (Illustrator)

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ISBN-10: 0917304292 | ISBN-13: 978-0917304293 | Publication Date: December 1, 1982 | Edition: 2

This is the perfect book to aid those who wish to create a rock garden, perhaps as an attractive adjunct to an open terrace, doorway entrance, flagstone walk, driveway, or winding woodland path. Author H. Lincoln Foster presents a wide variety of landscape planting ideas, as well as detailed instructions for the use of rocks in the landscape.Published at $24.95 Our last copies available at $12.49

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Called "the bible for American rock gardeners" by The New York Times, this classic includes practical information on construction of raised beds & planted walls, grading, & drainage. The heart of the book is an alphabetical descriptive catalog of more than 1,900 alpine plants for use in the rock garden.

Product Details

• Paperback: 466 pages
• Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated; 2 edition (December 1, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0917304292
• ISBN-13: 978-0917304293
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Down-to-earth, practical advice on gardening, July 21, 1998

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This review is from: Rock Gardening: A Guide to Growing Alpines and Other Wildflowers in the American Garden (Timber horticultural reprint series) (Paperback)

Although this book is titled "Rock Gardening", it has great appeal to all gardeners. It includes introductory information on how to create rock, bog and woodland gardens, how to propagate plants, maintenance, etc. But the best part is the comprehensive plant descriptions, with practical advice on their cultural requirements, difficulty and propagation. Although there are no color pictures, I find this is the book I rely upon most for accurate information on lesser known rock garden and woodland plants.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the rock gardening classics, September 30, 2008

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This review is from: Rock Gardening (Hardcover)

I knew I was on to something when this title kept cropping up in gardening articles and in other gardening books. Author H. Lincoln Foster is a premier authority on how to build a rock garden. He lists plants he has tried with great success and those with which he has experienced failure. Written in a comfortable conversational style and illustrated by his wife, Laura Louise Foster. A quote from the dust jacket: "The heart of the book is an alphabetical descriptive catalogue of more than 400 genera, comprising over 1900 individual plants, with cultural directions for each. The range runs from spring-flowering bulbs to autumn asters, from ground covers to the rarest of alpine treasure, from creeping herbs to broad-leaved evergreens and dwarf trees, from favorite perennial standbys to suitable ferns and the most pleasing of wildflowers."