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Palms and Cycads: A Complete Guide to Selecting, Growing and Propagating

Palms and Cycads: A Complete Guide to Selecting, Growing and Propagating
By David Squire

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Providing comprehensive information on care and cultivation, as well as sound advice on determining perfect plant location, this reference profiles 99 palm and 17 cycad species. Plantlovers looking to add a tropical accent to the garden or wanting to invest in a low-maintenance houseplant will find plenty of guidance in this alphabetical guide to plants suited to a variety of climates and soil types. A special section also provides help with matching palm species to indoor and outdoor settings and features further brief entries on 85 palms and 18 cyad species, making it an extremely useful source book for gardeners, interiorscapers, and landscapers all over the world.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #720978 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-04-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 160 pages

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About the Author

David Squire is a horticulturist and the author of more than 70 gardening and plant-related books including Small Gardens, Successful Bonsai, and The Scented Garden, which won the Garden Writers of America Quill and Trowel Award.

Customer Reviews

For gardeners in warm climates ...3
If you belong to the lucky ones living in a warm climate and want to learn basics about palm and cycas culture - well, this is your book! Excellent illustrations and good,compact information. If you need in-depth information on palms or if you live in a zone 7 or 8 climate, this book may not be complete enough for you, because many frost hardy palms have been omitted.
In this so called "Complete" guide no information is given about winter protection and how to cultivate palms with borderline hardiness in your garden.

not a good book for Cycad lovers2
I always feel angry when connecting palm and cycad together. These are completely different plants. And this book more emphaseses on palms instead of Cycad. As a cycad lover, I would take the part of description of palms as rubbish. Howevery, it is still having somthing inside worth reading, e.g. it provides some imformation on cultivating. And the price of the book is low enough. For this reason, I give two stars for this book.

Where's My Book?1
I would love to review this book, but after a month, it has never arrived.