Plants That Merit Attention: Shrubs - Hardcover

Garden Club Of America; Nancy Peterson Brewster; Janet Meakin Poor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881923478 ISBN 13: 9780881923476

Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated, 1996

Synopsis

Recommends a variety of useful, but less common trees, and describes each tree's characteristics and care requirements

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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.

Book Description:

Two superb volumes sponsored by the Garden Club of America intended to encourage more adventurous selections of trees & shrubs for planting in gardens, parks, & other public places. The new volume on shrubs presents more than 900 garden-worthy shrubs for every climate, pictured in both overall form & close-up detail. It was awarded the American Horticultural Society's Award of Merit for

About this edition

• Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0881923478
• ISBN 13: 9780881923476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 363