Product Description

Logee's Greenhouses is renowned worldwide as a leader in the horticultural industry, and since 1892 has been growing and selling over a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use. In this book, the third-generation owners of Logee's share the 109-year-old family secrets on how to grow exotic flowers. A no-nonsense approach to tropical plant care, coupled with exquisite photographs and inspirational messages, makes this book outstanding in its field. Designed to take the fear out of growing exoctics and tropicals, the text features 80 of the most popular genera and gives detailed information about how to grow, care for, prune and winter-over these beautiful plants. Specialties include dramatic flowering plants, fragrant plants, angel's trumpets, begonias, passion flowers, gesneriads, jasmines, hibiscus, and hoyas featured in brilliant, large-format color photographs. Also included are sections on soils! and fertilzers, insects and disease, containers and potting, pruning, and trouble shooting. A truly unique gardening choice for any plant lover.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #263890 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 199 pages

Review
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About the Author
Byron Martin is an expert horticulturist and lecturer who turned Logee's Greenhouses from a family business into an internationally-known horticultural company. He and his wife, Laurelynn Martin, have published numerous articles about their exotic plants. They jointly run Logee's Greenhouses, coined by the Washington Post as the "grandfather of the horticultural industry.

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully enhanced with full-color photography
Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants by expert horticulturalist and lecturer Byron Martin and his wife Laurelynn share 109-year-old family secrets on how to grow exotic flowers. Third-generation owners of Logee's, a firm that has been involved with growing and selling more than a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use since 1892, the information and advice offered are authoritative, dependable, practical, and totally "reader friendly" for gardeners and horticulturalists of all backgrounds and degrees of experience. Featured are eighty of the most popular genera and detailed information on how to grow, care for, prune, and winter over these beautiful, fragrant plants. The informed and informative text is wonderfully enhanced with full-color photography, sections on soils and fertilizers, insects, disease, containers and potting, pruning, and general trouble shooting. Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants is a welcome and invaluable addition to any serious gardening or horticulture reference shelf.

Beautiful blooming house plants
This is a beautiful book featuring 80 different plants. The plants in this book are listed in alphabetical order with each plant having it's own section. Each section starts with an easy to read list of important facts. Some of the facts on the list are: Botanical Name, Common Name, Origin, Light, Minimum Temperature, Soil and several others items.

There is also a section called Unique Characteristic/Other Growing Tips: In this section they go into more detail about the plants and give helpful information that will make it easier for you to grow. They talk about different varieties of the same plant and have pictures of them. Some genera only have one variety while others have too many to include all of them.

All of the plants in this book are blooming plants and all of the pictures are of the plants in bloom. There are no green plants. Some of the plants are easy to find locally, but others will be found only in specialties greenhouse or by mail order. Logee's Greenhouses carries all of the plants in this book. If you love blooming plants that are out of the ordinary you should love this book.