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The Pocket Tree & Shrub Expert
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| List Price: | CDN$ 14.95 |
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Product Description
* At the nursery and trying to decide what flower, shrub, or tree to buy? Just pull the book from your pocket or purse, and see in an instant which ones suit your soil, climate, current layout--and lifestyle too.
* In the park or public garden and want to identify a specimen that's caught your eye? The "encyclopedia"'s right there so you can look it up.
* Working in the backyard and concerned your favorite plant might have a disease or pest? Wonder if what's sprouting is a bothersome weed? Don't wait: you can take care of those troubles ASAP when you have the facts in a flash.
Every one is in full color, with easy-to-use directories. You won't want to go anywhere without them!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #658532 in Books
- Published on: 2001-06-30
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Just the right size for your pocket - just the right price for your pocket.
An A-Z of all the trees and shrubs you are likely to find at the garden centre.
Detailed information on key factors such as site and soil, propagation and pruning.
Precise information on height and colour.
Excerpt
The first Tree & Shrub Expert appeared nearly 20 years ago, but there is no need to change the opening paragraph in this Pocket edition – ‘Gardening styles may come and gardening styles may go, but ornamental trees and shrubs go on for ever.’ In the 1980s there was the container boom with potted shrubs and small tress providing focal points around the garden. Towards the end of the 1990s came the hard landscaping craze, with our magazines and TV screens filled with garden makeovers of glass, gravel, water, stone and brightly-painted wood.
Despite the new fashions nearly all our gardens remain essentially unaltered – areas of grass with beds and borders filled with plants. Among these plants the woody ones – the shrubs, trees, climbers and conifers – have a vital part to play. They create the upright living framework of the garden. In summer they provide height, colour and fragrance – they give the garden its shape. In winter their role is just as important. When the plants in the flower garden have died down, the bare branches of the deciduous (leaf-losing) shrubs and trees and the leaf-covered stems of the evergreens ensure that we are looking at a garden bed or border and not a bare patch of ground.
The bewildering array of plants at the garden centre have a wide range of needs, heights flowering times, pruning requirements etc. Over the years millions of gardeners have turned to the Tree & Shrub Expert for advice. Now there is a Pocket edition, designed to be taken into the garden, shop or garden centre to provide on-the-spot information.
The basic style has been retained but the text has been boiled down to the essential bare facts. All the popular genera have been retained together with many unusual ones, but rarities listed in only a few catalogues have been omitted.
Boiled down to basics, but not over-simplified. The soil and light needs of each plant together with its pruning requirements are dealt with in some detail rather than being left to a few symbols. Take this Pocket Expert with you to the garden centre or nursery and check basic facts before you buy – a well-grown and well-chosen tree or shrub will repay many times over the money and care you have bestowed on it.
