Product Description

This classic on native plants encourages the garden use of wild flowers, grasses, ground covers, and hardy ferns native to the eastern and midwestern U.S., suggesting suitable plants for woodland, meadow, and wetland features in the garden.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #863698 in Books
• Published on: 1997-03-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 247 pages

Review
"A must have reference for lanscape professionals or serious gardeners who wish to create or preserve natural plantings."
-Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta Journal Constitution )

A must have reference for lanscape professionals or serious gardeners who wish to create or preserve natural plantings. -Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta Journal Constitution )

About the Author
Samuel B. Jones, Jr., was for many years a professor of botany at the University of Georgia and director of the university herbarium.

The late Leonard E. Foote served for 30 years as Southeastern Field Representative of the Wildlife Management Institute.

Customer Reviews

The bible of native flowers!
I never thought I would take a gardening book to bed with me. This one is a pleasure to read and taught me a lot about identification and gardening uses of native wildflowers of the southeast and northeast. It's the first book I grab to look up a species. Lots of full color photographs have made it much easier for me to identify the plants I want at the nursery. The two authors are coming from different perspectives - one has a natural meadow/woodlands landscape and the other uses native plants in a more controlled garden setting along with exotics. Between the two of them, the reader gets a balanced idea of the possibilities of introducing native flowers to their own yards. I only wish the index combined scientific names with common names, rather than having two separate indexes. It would also be convenient if the plant photos were on the same pages as the descriptions. But those are minor criticisms of an overall superb book.

too garbled
I have an extensive collection of books on native plants - and the plants
to go with them! This book is one of my least favorite. The information is
not well sorted or presented. I would recommend C. Colston Burrell's
"Encyclopedia of Wildflowers" in preference to this book.
Or Carole Otteson's "Native Plant Primer" with trees and shrubs in addition to
herbaceous perennials.

Good content, don't like how it's presented
This is one of the better books when it comes to information about growing native plants. The authors are not shy about their opinions and the book is better for it.

On the down side, the book is not nearly as exhaustive as Cullina's books. I also don't like that it puts the photographs apart from the text, as this makes for some annoying page-flipping. The quality of the photographs is also rather amateurish.

A tepid recommendation would be a hearty one with a better layout and improved pictures.