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

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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.

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."