Alpine Plants: Ecology for Gardeners

by David Millard and John Good

Book Overview

Plants growing in alpine conditions face tough challenges just to survive, let alone flourish. An understanding of alpine ecology and knowledge of how these remarkably adapted plants thrive in their demanding environments is essential to growing them successfully in cultivation. "Alpine Plants" explores ecosystems above the treeline on mountains and beyond the treeline in subpolar regions from a gardener's perspective. It looks at the effects of geology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881928119
• ISBN13: 9780881928112
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.0"