Plants That Merit Attention: volume II, Shrubs by Garden Club of America,Nancy Peterson Brewster

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Condition: Very Good -

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated, , 1996

Dimensions: 11.0in x 0.96in x 8.5in, pages

SKU: 692e

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Book Description:

Recommends a variety of useful, but less common trees, and describes each tree's characteristics and care requirements Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Don't let the magisterial title of this large volume, part of the Garden Club of America's ongoing series, put you off. The authors have provided a marvelous compendium of alternatives to the hardy perennials of American garden shrubs: rhododendrons, forsythias, and yews. Here are hundreds of lesser-known shrubs (along with the common varieties, of course), each presented with a photograph and a brief, authoritative text. Arranged alphabetically, the book includes a set of appendices categorizing all the cultivars by pest and disease resistance, soil preference, shade tolerance, and several other factors. This is a book that no comprehensive gardening library can be without. From Publishers Weekly Move over, taxus; watch out, juniper! These overused landscape choices will likely see less light as this volume from the Garden Club of America adds a major resource to the body of information on implementing vastly more interesting shrub materials for the landscape. Compiled through the efforts of both professional and volunteer gardeners under the direction of landscape designer Poor and photographer Brewster, this extensively illustrated, encyclopedic tome provides full descriptions?culture, landscape value and growing locale?of over 900 superior native and non-native species found throughout the country. A comprehensive section on roses describes the shrubs and the speci...