Tropicalismo!: Spice Up Your Garden with Cannas, Bananas, and 93 Other Eye-Catching Tropical Plants

by Pam Baggett

Book Overview

Does your garden lack zing? Are your borders a bore? Spice them up with a touch of the tropics Tropical plants bring sizzle to every garden. Bananas in Maine, cannas in Canada--these plants can be grown everywhere. Whether used in containers or planted directly in the ground, their bold leaves and over-the-top flowers create instant drama. Pam Baggett chooses 100 of the best tropical plants and shows readers how to grow them, how to combine them with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881929476
• ISBN13: 9780881929478
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book!

Pam Baggett describes plants like no one else in the business -- her descriptions are detailed, intimate, and always on target. An incredibly useful resource for those looking for specifics about individual plants (including gorgeous photos) and some suggestions for appropriate partnerings. Clearly the publisher's format limits what can be done, but this is a delightful little "sonnet" of a garden book, working beautifully within the constraints of its form to inform and inspire us.

Worth every penny!

Those of you who remember Pam's fantastic and much-missed nursery, Singing Springs Nursery, will be as happy as I am to relive the fun of reading her personality-packed plant descriptions. Each entry includes suggestions of compatible companions for inspiring container and garden combinations, too.