Essential Plant Guide

by Brian Davis

This comprehensive guide describes more than 4,000 plant varieties, with over 1,200 color photographs illustrating their finest seasonal features. The main section of the book is comprised of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571456015
• ISBN13: 9781571456014
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.0" x 11.7"

Customer Reviews

Avid Gardner / Avid Reader

I bought this book several years ago and placed it on a shelf. What a mistake! Out of all my garden reference books, this is the one I now go to first. It is laid out very well. Each plant has a description of foliage, stem, flowers, fruit. Then hardiness, soil req., pruning, sun/shade, Problems, propagation. There are varities of interest and "stick drawings" of the eventual shape along with sizing at 5, 10 & 20 years. There are LOTS of great photos. There is even a great reference section in the back on selecting plants. The only negative is the book doesn't have conifers. I hope the author writes more books!