Product Description

This work covers palm biology, palm propagatino, environmental influences, mineral nutrition and fertilization, insect and disease pests, container and field production, transplanting, and landscape and interiorscape management,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #274548 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

From Booklist
Avid recreational gardeners, designers, and nursery professionals who enjoy growing dramatic ornamental palms will welcome this comprehensive manual comprising palm biology, propagation techniques, cultural requirements, and overall care. Broschat and Meerow approach their subject from a learned perspective, yet nonprofessionals should be easily able to navigate the chapters in order to glean sound advice on plants' growth habits, environmental stresses, pests, and diseases. More than 100 colorplates, as well as black-and-white photographs and line drawings, illustrate this excellent guide to cultivating palm trees. Alice Joyce
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Customer Reviews

Ornamental Palm Horticulture - Best book of its type!
The authors give good, solid often overlooked advice on growing and maintaining healthy palms. Many books assume a higher level of expertise by the purchaser. Common practices now have explainations for their useage. Wonderful pictorial section on pest, malnutrition and disease damage with clear photo's. A best buy for anyone in the industry or just a strong interest.

Correcting misunderstandings about this book
The authors clearly had no intention in writing yet another book filled with photos of palm species that would instruct readers on what palms to plant. There are already many books that provide the service that two of these reviewers ask for ("Betrock's Landscape Palms," "Betrock's Cold Hardy Palms," "Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms") that give detailed horticultural information on palm species. The intent of this book is made very clear in the introduction: this a book on how to deal with palms horticulturally, not a guide on which palms to choose in a landscape.

More textbook than anything
This is a useful book to have around when needing information on just about anything relating to palm horticulture. The only thing I was somewhat disappointed in though, was the lack of cultural information on specific palms. I was expecting something more like how best to grow this specific palm and then turn the page and go on to info. on how to grow the next one. This was more of a general and broad coverage of palms. But this might have been more my expectations were different, as the book is and will be very useful. But sometimes I just like to be able to look at a picture of a mature palm, read all the in's and outs of growing it, and dream or plan of fitting it into my landscape.