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Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates

Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates
By Graham Payne

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A lavish guide to planning, planting, and maintaining a Mediterranean garden, featuring an A-Z of more than 1,000 plants and 500 color photos. No image of the Mediterranean is complete without flowering climbers, colorful shrubs, or lush gardens. Now you can enjoy Mediterranean plants in your own garden. With sections on specific plants and general care, Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates will help you to choose and grow the region's most beautiful plants. This book includes: an introduction to Mediterranean climate and points to consider when planning a garden; key features of a Mediterranean garden, including climbing plants, palms, pots, and pergolas; advice on watering and soil care; ideas on which plants to use where; an A to Z of more than 1,000 plants; and 500 gorgeous color photos.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #941683 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

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From the Publisher
The Mediterranean climate—with its long, warm summers and cool, wet winters—is ideal for growing a wide range of gorgeous plants. However, these plants can be enjoyed far beyond the Mediterranean—in both small and large gardens with similar climates or, in cooler regions, in conservatories. With sections on both general care and specific plants, Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates will help you to choose and grow beautiful plants and create a garden suited to your needs. The book includes: an introduction to the Mediterranean climate and points to consider when planning a garden; advice on watering and soil care; a look at the features of a Mediterranean garden, including palms, pots and containers, climbing plants, and pergolas, as well as ideas on which plants to use where; an A–Z of over 1,000 plants; a cross–reference of English common names with botanical plant names; a detailed glossary of terms; and 500 color photos.

About the Author
After training in horticulture, Graham Payne followed a career as a gardener. He became Head Gardener of Downing College in Cambridge and then Head Gardener of Jesus College where he oversaw some twenty-seven acres of intensively managed gardens and sports grounds, as well as fifty other properties. He has now retired to southern Europe.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing and irresponsible1
I had high hopes for this book. I enjoyed the introductory narrative, but was horrified to see included in the encyclopedia of recommended plants several terrible weeds, with only a casual mention their possible invasive tendencies. Examples include giant reed (Arundo donax), brooms (Cytisus spp.), tree of heaven (Ailanthus), tamarisk (Tamarix spp.)--just these four plants have caused many millions of dollars' damage to wildlands in California alone. It's unconscionable that a book this recently written would still be recommending planting these.
Putting the weed issue aside, as a home gardener in a Mediterranean climate with winter freezes and very very hot summers, I was looking for plants new to me that might be suitable for my climate. I was again disappointed; the information given in the plant descriptions only occasionally mentioned frost or heat tolerance, and the author does not use a zone ranking (USDA, Sunset, or other) that would impart some of this information.
I have no further use for this book; unfortunately, given its flaws, I don't even want to give it away.