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Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia Hardcover – Illustrated, October 1, 1997

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This bestselling encyclopedia, illustrated with brilliant photographs, describes the best woody plants adapted to cooler climates, showing both habit and details of more than 500 species, and including some 700 additional cultivars and varieties. Brief cultural information is supplied for each plant, as well as Dirr's perceptive comments and opinions.

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8.94 x 1.31 x 11.38 inches
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A first-class source on the very best garden trees and shrubs. Excellent color photos accompany the well-written plant descriptions, which point out both the positive and negative attributes of each plant, including physical features, hardiness, disease resistance, and growth preferences. A multitude of cross-referenced indexes will help readers find the right plant for each location and desired effect. (LJ 11/15/97)
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"Before you invest in a tree or shrub, think about investing in this book." -- The Oregonian

"This book is a must for every serious gardener." -- Erica Glasener, Fine Gardening

"This volume...will become a standard garden reference source." -- Booklist, April 1, 1998

"Those readers not familiar with Michael Dirr's plant books would do well to make Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs their first." -- Brian Maynard, HortScience

A first-class source on the very best garden trees and shrubs. -- Library Journal, December 1999

A photographic tour-de-force... -- The American Gardener

Dirrs illustrated encyclopedia is another in a series of exquisite horticultural and gardening books published by Timber Press. -- Choice, April 1998

Though my shelves sag under the weight of books about trees and shrubs, theres still space for a pictoral encyclopedia that does the subject justice. -- Sunset Magazine

About the Author

Michael A. Dirr is a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. He is the author of twelve books, including Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia and the text and reference book, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, and has published more than 300 scientific and popular papers and articles. His teaching, lectures, seminars, garden study tours, and plant introduction programs have contributed enormously to greater horticultural awareness. He has received the highest teaching and gardening awards from the University of Georgia, American Society of Horticultural Science, American Horticultural Society, American Nursery & Landscape Association, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Southern Nursery Association, and Garden Club of America.

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"The ultimate in reference texts about shrubs and trees...sets what should be the standard for plant books."

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I hope the book provides a measure of inspiration for the plants and incites the readers to search them out for their gardens and landscapes.

Aesculus parviflora, Bottlebrush Buckeye

Truly one of the best native shrubs for late-spring and early-summer flower. This broad-mounded, suckering shrub can colonize a large piece of real estate. The wonderful coarse-textured, dark green leaves are composed of five to seven 3- to 8-in.-long leaflets that turn rich butter-yellow in fall. The 8- to 12-in.-long, bottle-brush-shaped inflorescences contain hundreds of white, four-petaled flowers with pinkish white stamens that stand out an inch from the petals. The inflorescences occur at the ends of the branches and are held upright. Interestingly, this species flowers almost as prolifically in shade as in sun. Smooth, 1- to 3-in.-long, pear-shaped, light brown capsules contain one or two shiny, light brown seeds. Bottlebrush Buckeye requires moist, well-drained soils for best growth, although quality specimens are found in every conceivable situation. Transplant balled and burlapped or from a container. Ideal for underplanting in woodlands or for use in shrub borders and large masses. Grows 8 to 12 ft. high, 8 to 15 ft. wide. Zones 4 to 8 ...

Calycanthus floridus, Sweetshrub, Carolina Allspice

One of the great treasures of eastern North America, especially the open-grown specimens that develop into large, roundish shrubs and offer wonderfully fragrant, brown-maroon flowers in April and May. Truly an old-fashioned heirloom plant that I have found in many old gardens. It offers a sense of permanence and purpose ... Always buy the plant in flower to insure pleasing fragrance ... Zones 4(5) to 9 ...

Parrotia persica, Persian Parrotia

I love this tree: the clean summer foliage; the yellows, oranges, and reds of autumn; the cream, green, gray, and brown exfoliating bark; and the small, maroon flowers that glow on a late-winter day. Over the years, my travels have led me to many parrotias, no two alike ...

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Timber Press; Illustrated edition (October 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 494 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0881924040
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0881924046
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.48 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.94 x 1.31 x 11.38 inches

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Michael A. Dirr is a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. He is the author of twelve books, including Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia and the text and reference book, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, and has published more than 300 scientific and popular papers and articles. His teaching, lectures, seminars, garden study tours, and plant introduction programs have contributed enormously to greater horticultural awareness. He has received the highest teaching and gardening awards from the University of Georgia, American Society of Horticultural Science, American Horticultural Society, American Nursery & Landscape Association, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Southern Nursery Association, and Garden Club of America.

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Nadar under the Radar

My fav tree book

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2007

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I have spent many years planting trees on my property in Eastern WA St, and over time have purchased many books on plants. This is my favoriate. The discriptions are the authors, and I love his style. Pithy, precise, to the point, with a ton of info. The photos are astounding, usually one of the tree flowering, in the fall and in full dress in the summer, all by the author. Often there are pictures of the leaves, bark and flowers/fruit up close. The index is arranged thusly: Selecting plants for specific characteristics, ie flowers, fruit, fall color, bark and etc. This helps me to quickly identify a tree. Trees/Bushes that flower also have the color, longivity, and smell. The shape of the plants are included ie, weeping, columnar, size and etc. Soil preferences are stated, very helpful. Dirr also lists the plants by catagory, ie, shrubs and there size, type ie evergreen as well as hardyness zones adapted to. The zones of the USA are included in the back on a clear map. Lastly plant scientific names and common name indexes are included. If you want to plant the right plant in the right place,(also a good book,) this is the book for you. There is no better bush/tree book in my library, always my first choice. Thank God for DIRR!

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Sue Ellen Wolcott

I am delighted with this beautiful and useful book.

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2018

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My landscaing contractor introduced me to this book, which he’d had since his landscaping-school days. The plants are not only beautifully photographed, but personally commented upon, in addition to being professionally & scientifically reported on. Having recently lost a lot of trees for various reasons, I am finding this book tremendously helpful and an excellent adjunct to the tree books I already have in choosing suitable replacements. The several different approaches and opinions round out the story of the tree, giving me a clearer picture of how well a particular variety might fit our location, space, and plans for use.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2014

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I've been in love with Michael Dirr's brain since I was a student of his at U of I, Urbana in the 70's. Like other fans, I've got each addition of his "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants", the industry Bible. If your nursery or landscaper does NOT have a weather-beaten copy of the Manual in their shop or truck, DO NOT HIRE THEM!!! lol

I received advance notice of this book's release and placed an advance order, counting the days until arrival. And it's finally HERE<<<, in my hot little hands, and ready to be devoured and enjoyed.

Note: The weight of this book is NOT for the faint of heart. It must surpass 6-7 pounds, as a hard cover. The quality of the paper used for printing is of high quality; the way a high-priced coffee table book should look and feel.

The photos show a lifetime of passion by Dr. Dirr; this must be one of his proudest achievements, to place in ONE spot just some of the photos he's taken throughout his career. Crisp, clean and sharp; some show Autumn colour, flowers, and adult form, which will be invaluable to landscape services. When you are trying to impress upon a client just HOW BIG a certain tree will become and they don't believe you, THIS book will put that topic to rest.

This certainly does not replace the Manual of Woody Plants; it's a short cut with Dirr's usual pithy comments. There's adult size and zoning, with a paragraph or two about each genus and species, but you'll certainly need the Manual for more specifics.

What is missing from this book, which I was hoping was present but is not, is clear close-ups of terminal buds of the trees and shrubs. Even in the Manual of Woody Plants, the majority of line drawings are only of the individual leaves and rarely a terminal bud, which is KEY to identifical of the more unusual of plants. A friend of mine, who is an arborist, is weekly running into botanical oddities that were dragged from the woods of Wisconsin or Michigan, or ordered from a now defunct nursery and he has NO CLUE what these things are! He and I log 2-5 hours per week, trying to key them out from Dirr's descriptions in the Manual; if he had included terminal buds in this book, it would have made it perfect.

However, most people do not have to key out random and odd Ostrya virginiana or Lindera benzoin trees on a daily basis so they will love and cherish this fine volume. I knew I needed one copy; I was waiting to delve into it to see if I need another. Yup, I do: one for my office and one for my truck, to take to meetings.

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JDR

Colorful DIRR

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2007

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i purchased this book to benefit myself and our customers at our Garden Center because the color photographs of the bark, fruit, blossoms, leaves, and overall plant shape easily answer a visual person's questions when reference books and detailed drawings do not go far enough to complete one's questions about visual impact in a landscape. Part II of this encyclopedia is an extensive collection of information from plant sizes, flowering cycles, tolerances, pruning time, fruit & flower colors and flowering sequences as well as bark & soil characteristics. This encyclopedia is a masterful reference book, easy to read, excellent material to brush up on one's horticulture knowledge, very useful in landscape design and by my own proof a very good reference source to have close by as you walk with customers in nurseries or garden centers.

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A. R. Myers

Almost perfect

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2007

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This book is a helpful, but not perfect reference guide. It would have been perfect if it consistently provided a plant's rate of growth, expected life, and the height and width each plant could be expected to reach in a home garden. Also, a greater number of photos of plant subspecies would have made this book more helpful as well.

For instance, I bought a Corkscrew Willow to quickly shade my house in the next five years, while a 100 year old maple tree that is on its way out finally dies. After the maple is down, I will plant a nice long lived oak it the Maple's place.

In the meantime I'd like to know how much growth per year I can expect from the Corkscrew Willow, how long the darn thing will live, and what it will look like. None of this information is available in this book.

I'd also like to know which Oak tree will do best, maybe even in the shade of my maple in the next few years? Which Oak tree will be a real legacy -- long life -- tree? Which Oak tree will produce the least amount of litter? This information is also not available in this book.

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