Customer Reviews

Taylor's Guide to Ornamental Grasses

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Almost a 5 star book. It contains 128 photographs of individual plant varieties. Great clean bright photos make identification easy (well as easy as it gets with grasses).

It contains an 'Encyclopedia of Grasses', some 104 pages of text that contain two or three paragraphs about each variety. There is also 40 some pages on general ornamental grass information, and 50 additional grasses in the garden photos.

It's a good book on ornamental grasses, and almost a great book. Worth the money, especially if you have no other reference book on ornamental grasses. Still, there are some minor criticisms:

First, the book is only 4-1/2 inches wide. I lose it in the bookcase, I find it hard to hold, and the damn thing won't stay open to the page I was reading unless I hold it open.

Second, the picture is on one page, and the text is someplace else. Couldn't we put the picture and the text on the same page. Doh! - what a concept.

Third, some of the information is very exact, while other information is vague. For example, some growing conditions are listed as 'sun or shade' - well, that just about covers it. Could we be more specific, like 'it grows best in sun, but tolerates shades'.

Don't get me wrong, I do like this book. I use it frequently and it's the best ornamental grass book that I own. Clearly worth the money.

It comes in hundreds of colors, varieties and useful blendings in a modern and private garden. This book gives wonderfull pictures and ideas on the proper decoramental grasses for your garden. Love this book as a preplanner and usefule guide for what will lwork.

This is an excellent presentation of everything one might care to know about ornamental grasses. But the first copy I received had a LOT of blank pages where text and illustrations should have been. Of course Amazon replaced the defective copy with no additional cost to me. Check your copy carefully upon receipt.