Product Description

The most comprehensive illustrated A-Z guide to today's most popular garden plants produced in conjunction with the AHS, America's premier gardening authority. Full horticultural information for over 5,000 plants produced by a team of over 40 experts. Full-color photographs of suggested planting ideas show you how to combine perennials in your garden. Special "Gardeners' Notes" panels offer expert planting advice, useful tips and fascinating facts. Published in conjunction with the American Horticultural Society.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132950 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 496 pages

About the Author
Editors in chief: Graham Rice is a renowned plantsman and gardening author whose writing been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt Bluemel, one of the founding fathers of the "ornamental grass movement," specialized in growing and creating landscapes with ornamental grasses and perennials before they were widely used in North America.

Customer Reviews

Awesome reference book
I am just getting beyond petunias, hostas and impatiens in the world of gardening, so ordered this book when starting up our local garden club "ended up in my lap." (If I don't know what I'm doing on a project, I buy books...) At first, this volume was a little intimidating because it is organized by the scientic names of all the plants. Once I got the hang of looking up the common name in the back, then finding the cross-referenced scientific name, it's wonderful! My friend, a much more accomplished gardener than I, used the book to help with our plant sale and the questions customers had about the perenials we had for sale. The pictures are amazing. I have identified in my back yard many of the plants I'd been previously pulling as weeds...I'm also looking up how to separate and move these wonderful newfound treasures, so the book can pay for itself -- all in all, a great investment!

Good but missing
it's a full and complete guide listing of perennials but i wanted to read about the care of the plants as well. there is no info on the care of any of the plants in the book

Pretty Pictures
I got this book cause I figured it would help me prepare some of my plants for winter and spring, the ones that I'm not as familiar with. I don't know all of their technical names and this has proven to be a problem for me. I can't find the plants I need and I know that they have to be in there, but there is soooooo much information in there and there isn't a photo with each one so I don't know whats what. I have found some of the plants that I already know what I'm supposed to do with them and the info is very good. I just need to take the time I guess and go through it page by page but I really don't have time for that. On the bright side it does have pretty pictures.