This book is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for choosing
plant material for landscape designs. This reference manual
includes comprehensive lists with search criteria for each of the
major plant groups, including trees, shrubs, groundcovers,
perennials, vines, grasses, and ferns. These plant groups contain
hundreds of specific species, varieties, and cultivars that are
readily available in the marketplace from the major production
nurseries. Landscape architects, designers, contractors, or anyone
who designs with plants, can easily choose plants that will work on
their site. The book is technical enough for the professional, yet
simple enough to be used by the layperson. Both botanical and
common names are used and an extensive amount of cultural and
environmental information is presented.While many other books of
this kind give only basic information such as sun/shade,
height/width, there are so many as 30 specific categories for each
plant group. The categories cover such important criteria as light
and soil requirements, zone hardiness, height and width, pest and
disease susceptibility, urban tolerance, and tolerance to salt and
drought. The lists also include many criteria often overlooked such
as growth rates, overall messiness, root systems, minimal fall
clean up, maintenance levels, soil PH and landscape value/use, and
many visual characteristics such as texture, foliage color and fall
colors, bloom colors and seasons, shapes and forms, attractive bark
and foliage and more. There is also a candid Pros & Cons
section covering some realistic considerations for each of the
plant species groups.
General
Imprint: |
Purdue University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2009 |
First published: |
July 2009 |
Authors: |
Marc C. Stoecklein
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Dimensions: |
279 x 216 x 45mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
|
Pages: |
751 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-55753-546-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-55753-546-9 |
Barcode: |
9781557535467 |
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