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Taylor's Guide to Shrubs: How to Select and Grow More than 500 Ornamental and Useful Shrubs for Privacy, Ground Covers, and Specimen Plantings [Paperback]

Kathleen Fisher (Author)
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Taylor's Guides February 20, 2001
Shrubs are the backbone of the garden. Chosen wisely, they will do more for your landscape than any other kind of plant. Chosen carelessly, they can be expensive mistakes. In this handy new TAYLOR'S GUIDE, you'll find the most-sought-after cultivars, offering better flowers, unusual foliage, colorful berries, improved disease tolerance, or compact size and shape for small gardens. Here you can choose the perfect shrubs

- to give you privacy and screen out unattractive views - to act as a beautiful focal point or enhance a mixed border - to control erosion or create a ground cover that needs no mowing - for difficult situations such as windy seashores, droughty shade, and wet areas

And for every plant in this authoritative book, you'll find detailed how-to-grow information.

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About the Author

Kathleen Fisher is author of Taylor's Guide to Shrubs from Houghton Mifflin.
 

Frances Tenenbaum is the author of several garden books and the editor of the Taylor's Guide series at Houghton Mifflin.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1st edition (February 20, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0618004378
  • ISBN-13: 978-0618004379
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #430,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellant shrub guide, August 19, 2007
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This is one of my favorite reference books that I refer to quite often, and it is very enjoyable just to look through it and to reread it with reference to what you are intersted in.Lots of good pictures and many,many plants.Chances are, what you are looking for is in this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Shrubs, May 10, 2008
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Good book, although did not have as many photographs or plant selections as I would have liked.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Taylor's Guide to Shrubs, March 8, 2007
This review is from: Taylor's Guide to Shrubs: How to Select and Grow More than 500 Ornamental and Useful Shrubs for Privacy, Ground Covers, and Specimen Plantings (Paperback)
I purchased my first Taylor's Guide 20 years ago. I have since purchased most in the series after realizing I always always reach for Taylor's Guides first, before any of my other gardening books. We have homes in 3 different hardiness zones-3,6 and 9. Taylor's is comprehensive and accurate. My gardening failures have occured only when I couldn't resist
a shrub, tree, plant etc. and chose to ignore the Taylor's planting, maintenance or hardiness zone recommndations. As I type, we are replacing sun shrubs with "Taylor ecommended" shade shrubs beneath maturing trees in zone 9.
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Shrubs are the most versatile plants we can grow in our gardens. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
midspring flowers, semihard cuttings, semiripe cuttings, propagate from softwood cuttings, stratified seeds, white spring flowers, shade organic, genus encompasses, arching shoots, upright panicles, flowered shoots, part shade, evergreen hybrid, yellow spring flowers, minimal pruning, shrub border, commonly grown species, tall ground cover, prune lightly, becoming leggy, suckering shrub, witch hazel family, colorful fall foliage, full sun, pealike flowers
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, North America, East Asia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, South America, Gold Medal, Northern Hemisphere, Central America, North Africa, New England, American Arborvitae, Tartarian Dogwood, Toiofeet Full, Alder-leaved Serviceberry, Asia Midwest, Big-leaf Hydrangea, Bumald Spirea, Buttercup Winter Hazel, Chinese Fringetree, Chinese Hibiscus, Common Bearberry, Common Bottlebrush, Devil's Walking Stick, Doublefile Viburnum, Hinoki False Cypress
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