Mid-Atlantic Gardener's Guide

by André Viette, Jacqueline Hériteau, Mark Viette

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants. The Mid Atlantic Gardeners Guide is devoted to offering the top landscape plants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930604998
• ISBN13: 9781930604995
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Cool Springs Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book

Excellent book for gardners in East. I wil try to use the information provided in this book for next season in my garden.

Great book!

I agree with other reviewers that this is a handy dandy guide! It's a great resource for Mid-Atlantic Gardeners.

Great for beginners in our area

We recently bought our first free standing home on 1/4 acre in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. My original plan was to 'garden every inch', but I soon realized that was not a 'plan'. After going through several volumes and magazines in the library, I came across this book. Its beauty lies in the fact that it helps the begginer to PLAN. The gorgeous pictures helped me decide which plants I like visually; the icons let me know immediately which plants do well in shade, sun or both; which are drought tolerant, which attract bees, which are scented, which are native; the list seemed endless. I also like the fact that the book includes water plants, trees, grasses and shrubs with the usual fare because we are fortunate enough to have dogwoods in our yards and now I know how to take care of them. The reference guide includes contact information for area garden centers, including one about 15 minutes from where we live. I hope readers can find a guide like this specific to the areas in which they live. The best recommendation of all: after 3 renewals from the library, I finally decided to BUY the book - I'm definitely going to use it this spring and always.

pretty good

I like that this book is specifically about the area in which I live. There's lots of good info here. I wish there had been more flowers listed, though. I wanted to find a smorgasbord of pretty, interesting and different flowers from which to choose. (I'm not looking to plant trees, so I just skipped over that section.) I think this book is a pretty good resource for neophyte or relatively new gardeners in the Mid-Atlantic.