Guide to Landscape Palms

by Alan W. Meerow

Book Overview

No markings/notations. Spine/binding tight and pages in good cond. No Dust Jacket. Cover/page edges in good cond, but shows moderate bumping, some creasing, scuffing. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962976113
• ISBN13: 9780962976117
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Ball Publishing
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Dave's Book Review

This book is well organized. Since I'm just learning about palm trees, I found the palm identification guide especially useful - I used it to easily identify a beautiful Senegal Date Palm in my hometown. The other tables and guides are also helpful. For example, there is a scientific/common name cross reference for all the palms discussed in the book.The chapter discussing care for your palm trees is good, but I would like to see more specific instructions for a beginner. The main reason I bought the book was that I had just planted a Canary Island Date Palm in my backyard and wanted to care for it properly, since I've killed just about every plant I've ever tried to grow by either over-watering or under-watering. I was hoping for specific information, such as, "Give the tree twenty gallons of water every three days." The instructions given in the book are more general, but if you're already an experienced gardener they're probably sufficient.This book does provide fairly comprehensive information about the specific palms it covers (about 100), and will help you select palms for your landscape. It also provides enough basic information about palm trees in general that you will have some ability to evaluate palms not specifically covered in the book.One weakness of the book is that some of the photographs aren't very good, even of some of the most common palm trees. For example, Pygmy Date Palms are very common and very photogenic, but if you judged them by the pictures in this book you'd never realize how spectacular they really are. Also, some of the pictures show trees that are very young, and not developed enough to be distinguishable.Overall, a great book with lots of useful information.

Excellent book for identifying all types of palms

This book was extremely helpfull in identifying the different types of palms. Great pictures, lots of information on where to plant, how to plant, how much water, different types of diseases. I would really recommend this to others.

Everything you need to know about Palms.

I am a reader who whants to know about Palms, but not every scientific thing about them. So I found out about the book Betrock's Guide to Landscape Palms. Every page is packed with information and clear photographs. The book tells how fast they grows, human hazards, comments,and even tells the zones they grow in; and much, much, more! All this for a price of $30.00!!!!! I recommend this book to every Palm lover!

A superb reference on landscape palms.

A beautiful and extremely useful guide to the most common landscape palms of Florida, California, and Hawaii. The book is very well laid out and easy to navigate. Sharp color photos accompany the concise yet thorough text with one palm, or a very closely related group (Genus) of palms, described on each page. Planting and maintenance advice follows, with photographically documented information on diseases and nutritional deficiencies included. Reference lists at the end of the book cover a variety of subjects. Excellent!

Good subject coverage on a huge topic!

As a novice palm enthusiast I am always searching for information on palms. The subject is usually too wide ranging or to technical but this book, Betrock's Guide to Landscape palms, has very complete and accurate information about landscape palms. It has good coverage of the palms which can be grown in the tropical and sub-tropical areas of the United States; ie. Southern California and Florida. Very well laid out with good color photos