American Horticultural Society Great Plant Guide

by American Horticultural Society

Book Overview

Designed to help gardeners choose plants in two different ways, the AHS Great Plant Guide features color photos, A-Z and planting guides, and cold-hardiness and heat-zone maps. Over 1,000 plants have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756603153
• ISBN13: 9780756603151
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 702 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 4.5" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring Collection of Dreamy Plants

If you dream of finding beautiful flowers, the new updated and revised American Horticultural Society Great Plant Guide is impressive. With over 3000 recommended plants and guides for plants for containers, this book was rather handy when planting a new container garden. On page 674 and 675 you can find a Plant Heat-Zone Map which gives 12 heat zones. Most plants are featured with a picture and short description. Then, you can find symbols for the preferred soil type, sun/shade preferences and hardiness zone ranges. The plants without pictures are listed in The Planting Guide and feature trees, shrubs, climbers, perennials and bulbs suitable for specific site or garden situations. Features: Advice on how to buy plants through the mail How to choose healthy bulbs Understanding Plant Names Plants to attract Birds Plants to attract Butterflies Plants for Cold or Warm Walls Flower for drying or cutting Architectural plants Cottage-garden-style plants Trees for Small gardens Flowering hedges You can look up a flower in the index. Like, say "Petunia." This gives you a few names and then you can search for advice on how/where to plant your favorites. Since I just moved further away from my dear mother, we have both planted Petunias. So now when we look out of our window to our planters, we will think of each other. It was my mother's idea and she loves gardening. My grandmother used to grow roses and it seems everyone in my family has a green thumb. Our family loves going to gardens and learning flower names. This book is perfect for travel and is very useful when shopping for plants that have not yet bloomed. You can quickly look up names of plants alphabetically. For more detailed information on Container Gardening, look up the book by the same name by Paul Williams. His book taught me the best way to create an inspiring masterpiece. Now onto dreaming about planting a new lavender garden in the near future. I am also intrigued by some of the vines in this book. The blue trumpet vine looks interesting and in the zone I'm living in, I could quite possibly grow a passionflower vine. Seattle and Issaquah were a bit too cold and rainy. There are some stunning flower selections interspersed with familiar flower faces. If it was my choice, I'd spend all my time writing, cooking and planting flowers while listening to inspiring music. What a life! This book is sure to inspire some of your own gardening dreams. ~The Rebecca Review

Contains 3,000 recommended plants

The revised, updated new edition of the American Horticultural Society's Great Plant Guide is truly an outstanding achievement. A fat but genuinely pocket-sized guide contains 3,000 recommended plants, color photos, and an A-Z format for quick consultation. Add at-a-glance charts of required conditions and you have a reference which is useful and colorful.

Love it.

Love this book. The pocket size and all the pictures make it quite handy for quick reference. Excellent pictures.

An essential book for every Gardener

This is a must for all who garden. The pictures are good; there is a picture for every plant listed. The thing that makes this guide particularly good is that it includes the new heat zone recommendations, as well as the climate zones. I would not be without this very valuable reference book.

Terrific!

I carried this book through the nursery while inspecting some spring plants to purchase, and every flower I looked at was in the book. I couldn't beleive it! I told all my friends about it!