Product Description

Learn landscape secrets that can save your garden, your home, and maybe your sanity after the next big one in Florida!

Pamela Crawford, bestselling Florida garden author and researcher, has a new book that will show you how to landscape to minimize wind damage, both to your garden and your home. She has researched and analyzed thousands of pages of data and spoken to hundreds of experts - from Max Mayfield, the director of the National Hurricane Center, 37 different county extension directors, four botanical gardens, 12 researchers from University of Florida, and many emergency managers - and found answers that every homeowner in Florida needs to know. The results of her research are astounding, and can make your experiences in the next hurricane go from catastrophic to a mere inconvenience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #886170 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-10
• Released on: 2005-01-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780971222021
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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About the Author
Pamela Crawford began gardening at age 3 with her English mother in Mississippi. She moved to Florida in the 70's, planning a gorgeous garden filled with color. The next few years brought more blunders than blooms, as she made every gardening mistake in the book! These early errors started a three-decade saga to learn everything she could about Florida gardening. She got a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from Florida International University, followed by starting a nursery and garden design business. While designing 1500 gardens, she also started trial gardens to determine which Florida plants gave the highest performance with the least amount of care. Of the 2500 plants tested to date, only 230 passed her difficult trials. These are truly tough plants!

After her first hurricane experience in 2004, she decided to either move out of Florida or figure out better landscape methods that would reduce the devastation she saw in the four hurricanes of that year. Luckily, she discovered both strong trees and design methods that could actually minimize damage to Florida homes and gardens after hurricanes. She is not moving!

10 years ago, Pamela began shipping plants to Mississippi to learn more about the cold tolerance of her plants. These results have great applicability to the northern parts of Florida.

Pamela is planning three books in her Florida Gardening Series. The first book, "Easy Gardens for South Florida", was published in 2000 and features 100 easy plants as well as all you ever needed to know about how to plant and maintain your Florida garden. "Best Garden Color for Florida" is the second volume. "Containers Gardens for Florida" is the third volume, which should be released in early 2005.

Customer Reviews

StormScaping Blows Me Away
I've just received the copy of Pam Crawford's new book, StormScaping. It shows the overall effects of the 2004 Florida Hurricane season, and is chock full of photos of what got damaged and what made it through 4 hurricanes in 3 weeks. It also has strom maps, photso from previous storms, and an "encyclopedia" of plants, pro and con.

It is a very useful and comprehensive document, and will prove very instructive to homeowners across Florida as they evaluate their Florida Yards and replant come spring.

In other warm climates (Texas, Louisiana), homeowners may also find it useful as they assess their vulnerability to tropical storm impacts to landscapes.

I am proud to have played as small part in its development - some of my photos are included - and very glad that Pam was able to get it out in such a timely manner.

Wow!
Finally a book that helps me recover from the storms! We had many trees fall in our yards during the two hurricanes that hit us last year. As they fell, they crushed our gardens that were growing underneath them. I love trees, but was terrified to plant more because they might fall again. A master gardener at the county extension recommended "Stormscaping" and I love it! I learned more about strong trees in 30 minutes of reading than I had ever known in my entire life! And the book was written so that even a novice like me could understand it! I'm now confident that I can plant a new garden that will withstand all but the strongest hurricanes. This book is well-worth the price, and a must-have for all Florida gardeners.

Fabulous Book!
After living thru both Hurricanes Frances & Jeanne in just a 4 week period, we saw firsthand what these storms can do. Ms. Crawford is right on the money in her assessment of which trees & plants can handle the winds and which ones can't. The trees listed as poor performers in high winds were the very same ones I saw down all over our area. And the ones listed as high wind tolerant are the ones we have still standing. Also her ideas on how to shelter your garden from storms by planting wind tolerant barriers is terrific! This book is invaluable to all of us gardeners living in the "Hurricane Zone" Her previous 2 books were excellent also. I can't wait for her next one!