The Perfect Plant: For Every Site, Habitat, and Garden Style - Hardcover

Joyce, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556706073 ISBN 13: 9781556706073

Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1998

Synopsis

Featuring thousands of specially commissioned color photographs, a guide offers in-depth descriptions of the two thousand hardiest and loveliest plants for any garden, including detailed information on their characteristics and cultivation requirements. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

David Joyce's outstanding plant encyclopedia, first published in Great Britain, has detailed descriptions and photographs of more than 3,000 plants. Though it still contains descriptions of worldwide plant communities (that show, for example, the similarities and differences between the prairies of Texas, European alpine meadows, and the grasslands of Africa and New Zealand), the plant directory has been adapted to the North American climate (which ranges from zone 1 to zone 11) by John Elsley. The directory is sorted into trees, shrubs, conifers, climbers, roses, perennials, bulbs/corms/tubers, annuals/biennials, and bamboos/grasses/ferns. With its nicely detailed listings, highly readable layout, and small but luminously clear photographs, this is the book you'll want to take along to the nursery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1556706073
• ISBN 13: 9781556706073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352