Native Plants Of The Southeast: A Comprehensive Guide To The Best 460 Species For The Garden Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Using native plants in a garden has many benefits. They attract beneficial wildlife and insects, they allow a gardener to create a garden that reflects the native beauty of the region, and they make a garden more sustainable. Because of all this, they are an increasingly popular plant choice for home and public gardens.Native Plants of the Southeast shows you how to choose the best native plants and how to use them in the garden. This complete guide is an invaluable resource, with plant profiles for over 460 species of trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers. Each plant description includes information about cultivation and propagation, ranges, and hardiness. Comprehensive lists recommend particular plants for difficult situations, as well as plants for attracting butterflies, hummingbirds, and other wildlife.
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Timber Press (January 28, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1604693231
ISBN-13: 978-1604693232
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 1.1 x 10.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
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I am a professional landscape architect and I have needed a resource like this for years...finally! The most complete guide to native plants I have ever seen. Not only does it contain useful information about native plants for the professional, but homeowners and novice garden designers will find this helpful also...a great investment. Great photos, wonderfully organized (I love his ranking system) and many many plant reviews.
It has beautiful photographs that really show the plants. It is well organized by groups of plants, ferns, grasses, aquatic plants, bog plants, wildflowers, vines, shrubs, conifers and trees. Each plant is described and it's growing conditions given, and it is given a rating as to it's value in the garden. In the back are lists of plants that would suit particular growing conditions and situations. The book is much larger and heavier than I had expected. It is more of a coffee table book, to be admired and studied, rather than a field guide.
Native Plants of the Southeast is more than a wildflower guide. The contents cover all types of native plants, with specific recommendations for including them in the garden, including ease of cultivation, availability, and a rating system that will help the home gardener make decisions as to what plants to use. There are many wonderful photos and helpful lists, but the best part is the obvious love and enthusiasm the author has for his work. His descriptions show incredible knowledge of having worked with these plants over many years.Both the experienced native plant gardener and those wishing to include natives in the landscape will benefit from reading this treatment of so many of our natural national treasures.
Everything you need to know about native plants, with beautiful clear color photographs. I enjoy relaxing and simply looking at the photos, very peaceful. This is my favorite book to go to for complete information on habitat, range, description, propagation, cultivation and availability. I keep it with me at all times in my garden center. Well worth the price.
This is a must have book for the gardener in the SE US who is interested in native plants. The author provides a capsule summary of plant characteristics and cultural requirements-- and a lot of beautiful photos of mature specimens.
I viewed my copy through NetGalley,and found this to be a thorough look at a variety of elevations that make up the southeast. Well done, lots of nice pictures and descriptions. It was a little dry in spots, I thought, but not boring -more textbook like. As in pay attention this is important.Definitely a good book for an overview of why native plants should have a part in gardens as well as what those native plants are, and how to nurture them. Thorough coverage of the topic at hand.
omg!! I LOVE this book. Everything about each plant, tree, shrub, etc. is right at the end of your nose. Great pictures, and I especially like the author adding personal experiences with certain plantings. I have a bunch of old business cards cut in half lengthwise marking pages for my must plant this year... or next. They are listed on the back of an envelope to be taken to the big plant sale at the farmer's market this weekend, or searching at my favorite local nursery. If neither, internet purchase.
If you are interested in native plants and live in the southeast ---this is the book for you. Under the "notes' heading on each plant , the author gives you some of his experiences with that plant. Invaluable!
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