Your Florida Guide to Bedding Plants: Selection, Establishment, and Maintenance - Softcover

Black, Robert J.; Gilman, Edward

9780813016429: Your Florida Guide to Bedding Plants: Selection, Establishment, and Maintenance

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813016428 ISBN 13: 9780813016429

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 1998

Wherever you live in Florida,Your Florida Guide to Bedding Plants meets your special needs with step-by-step information from experts in Florida horticulture. From colorful container plants to multi-level landscaping designs, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book will help make all your outdoor projects a success.

Learn how to:
--design attractive beds with easy-to-follow landscape plans
--choose plants most appropriate to your corner of Florida
--place and use over 70 bedding plants with the at-a-glance color photo reference
--garden successfully in coastal areas
--prevent and cope with plant pests and diseases
--create hanging-basket, fragrance, and cutting gardens.

Robert J. (Bob) Black is the consumer horticultural specialist for the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

Ed Gilman develops educational materials and conducts educational programs for the nursery and landscape industries.

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Book Description:

In this full-color eco-friendly guide to landscaping in Florida, the authors discuss trees, palms, shrubs, ground covers, and vines as well as the uses of mulches and compost. Additional problem-solving sections tackle soils and fertilizers, pruning, weeds, nematodes, plant diseases, and coping with cold weather. A safety guide and list of resources for further help make this the most complete single-volume source for environmentally sound landscaping in Florida and a boon for newcomers to the state.

This book will help the professional and individual landscaper to:
--plan landscapes suited to a region’s particular climate, microclimate, soil, and environmental challenges
--take into account all stages of the landscape’s design and development throughout each season
--utilize aesthetically and ecologically harmonious combinations of plants
--landscape without polluting natural resources
--conserve energy and water
--promote safe and effective pest control.

About the Author:

Robert J. Black is consumer horticulturist and Kathleen C. Ruppert is environmental horticulturist with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida.

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