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Offering shrubs (which overlap with smaller trees) for every purpose and taste, this compact guide covers the selection basics, caveats about invasives, landscaping and cultivation tips, and a color gallery of plants from Abelia to Zenobia. Includes a zone hardiness map. Lacks information on the author.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
Shrubs are the backbone of the garden. Chosen wisely, they will do more for your landscape than any other kind of plant. Chosen carelessly, they can be expensive mistakes. In this handy new TAYLOR'S GUIDE, you'll find the most-sought-after cultivars, offering better flowers, unusual foliage, colorful berries, improved disease tolerance, or compact size and shape for small gardens. Here you can choose the perfect shrubs- to give you privacy and screen out unattractive views- to act as a beautiful focal point or enhance a mixed border- to control erosion or create a ground cover that needs no mowing- for difficult situations such as windy seashores, droughty shade, and wet areasAnd for every plant in this authoritative book, you'll find detailed how-to-grow information.

FROM OUR EDITORS

Covering more than 400 types of shrubs -- from the colorful hydrangea to the lush Fatshedera to the exotic Glory Bush -- this guide to the garden staple is thorough, compact, and attractive. Every vital fact is included for each listing, even whether the shrub is best suited to serve as a border or for privacy.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Shrubs are the backbone of the garden. Chosen wisely, they will do more for your landscape than any other kind of plant. Chosen carelessly, they can be expensive mistakes. In this handy new TAYLOR'S GUIDE, you'll find the most-sought-after cultivars, offering better flowers, unusual foliage, colorful berries, improved disease tolerance, or compact size and shape for small gardens. Here you can choose the perfect shrubs- to give you privacy and screen out unattractive views- to act as a beautiful focal point or enhance a mixed border- to control erosion or create a ground cover that needs no mowing- for difficult situations such as windy seashores, droughty shade, and wet areasAnd for every plant in this authoritative book, you'll find detailed how-to-grow information.

SYNOPSIS

Offering shrubs (which overlap with smaller trees) for every purpose and taste, this compact guide covers the selection basics, caveats about invasives, landscaping and cultivation tips, and a color gallery of plants from Abelia to Zenobia. Includes a zone hardiness map. Lacks information on the author.