Customer Reviews

Sunbelt Gardening: Success in Hot-Weather Climates

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In his first effort as a full-length work, Tom Peace has succeeded where others have failed. Finally, a resource for those of us who have longed for a lesson in hot-weather gardening! Rather than a book of charts and lists of what to plant when, the author provides us with the tools to make informed decisions. Resplendent with pages and pages of color photographs of the author's work, real-life examples of hot-weather gardens, this book is not to be missed. I can't wait to get started on my garden!

Gardeners in zones 7, 8 and 9 often endure drought and extremely hot and humid temperatures. Our plants often suffer as a result. This book, divided by sections of the southeast and the southwest, shows what plants will do well in these climates. The author also discusses winter gardening and how the sunbelt gardener can successfully have color in their gardens year round. The book is well organized and the photographs are spectacular. It will serve as a valuable reference to gardeners in this region.

While this book is nicely written, photographed and art directed, as a working reference manual for specific plants for specific locales such as the Southwest Desert (or any where else for that matter)it isn't of much value. The Sunset Western Garden Book is far superior. It gives a much better climate zone break down and a much more complete and usable plant guide for the gardener.

This is a really, really useful book for those of us who only get two seasons...(searingly hot and humid, cloudy and humid), but the best feature is that the guy writes well and sensibly---no boring stuff, and no high-flown references to white-flower rooms at Sissinghurst. This ain't England.
I may start taking the book with me to the big box stores, in order to reduce the death toll among plants that never should have been sold here in the first place!

I bought this for the zone 9-10 range of florida but it doesn't do the job for me about the high humidity and the heat, but heres what i really likes about this book it has great photos and of combination of plants together some have more than 2 plants together and shows how well they work together , it doesn't address the florida problems so this one isn't for florida but it's a great book for the southern gardener and the i love the photos so i'll keep this one just to look at the plantings