Plants for American Landscapes

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Av Neil G. Odenwald, Charles F. Fryling Jr, Thomas E. Pope, Charles F. Fryling, Neil G Odenwald, Charles F Fryling, Thomas E Pope

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Plants for American Landscapes is a superb practical guide to the identification, selection, and cultivation of over a thousand of the most popular and dependable ornamental plants grown in the United States. With more than a century of collective experience in landscape architecture and horticulture, the authors share their intimate knowledge of flowers, foliage, fruit, and barks, as well as their insights concerning each plant's unique attributes. Their succinct, fact-filled, vivid descriptions present both essential material and fascinating tidbits about which plants are suited to particular environments. Eight hundred full-color photographs display the plants in their natural settings. Homeowners, gardeners, landscape architects and designers, horticulturalists, and anyone who loves plants will find it a resource they turn to again and again.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-10-30
Mått216 x 275 x 21 mm
Vikt1 293 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor266
FörlagLouisiana State University Press
ISBN9780807130117

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Neil G. Odenwald, FASLA, is a professor emeritus of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University and the author of, among other works, Live Oak Splendor: Gardens Along the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans and, with Charles F. Fryling, Jr., and Thomas E. Pope, Attracting Birds to Southern Gardens. Charles F. Fryling, Jr., ASLA, is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University. Thomas E. Pope is the former Louisiana Cooperative Extension landscape horticulture specialist.

"Designing the landscape of your dreams just became easier.... With this book in hand, you'll never pick the wrong plant for the wrong place again." - Southern Living Garden Guide; "A plant lover's dream. This book is destined to be one of the great 'plant bibles' used by gardeners and landscape professionals." - Baton Rouge Advocate; "The authors' scientific and practical 'how-to' knowledge is impeccable.... Home gardeners will be just as comfortable using it as professional designers and landscape architects." - Jackson Clarion-Ledger"