Product Description

A timely and comprehensive review of these high-color, low-maintenance garden plants.

The sight of a wild landscape covered with heathers in full bloom is breathtaking, so it is little surprise that people have found ways of introducing these rewarding plants into their gardens. In the residential context they excel, offering color in the drabbest months and a huge diversity of height, habit, and other valuable characteristics in return for modest cultural demands.

A fascinating account of the unique ecological niche they occupy—including their remarkable adaptation to make use of the nitrogen and phosphorus unavailable to most other plants— provides a fitting context for discussion of their specific cultural needs. The detailed selection of cultivated hardy heathers conveniently provides gardeners with the best garden performers while further lists allow them to search for heathers for specific qualities such as heat tolerance, ground cover, or early summer blooming. Design options for displaying heathers at their best in the garden are provided along with advice on spacing, pruning, propagation, pests, and diseases. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated work, classic wild-collected cultivars are described alongside the latest introductions to produce an invaluable reference that will inspire heather enthusiasts and gardeners for generations to come.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #714659 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 296 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780881927825
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
David Small is a leading authority on heathers and has been advising growers and gardeners alike for over 30 years. He has written countless articles on heathers and is the current president of the heather society in the UK.

Ella May T. Wulff was president of the North American Heather Society from 2001 to 2004. She writes often for the North American Heather Society's quarterly, Heather News, and has given numerous garden club lectures on various horticultural subjects.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Reference Work
After seeing this book offered at New England's largest heather nursery, I requested it from my library's network (just one copy of this new title was available in eastern Mass. at the time). My initial "thumb turning" suggested that, with the authors residing in the UK and California, this might not be for me either (USDA Zone 5B - heather's cultural frontier because we don't have reliable, winter-long snow cover) but I decided to start it. This book is very well done and exhaustively researched by two experts in the field. I thought Chapter 2's (Care & Cultivation / Soil) discussion of Mycorrhizae alone was worth the book's asking price. Much of this book's information is useful in areas well beyond heathers and heath. I'm not sure what Evonne's expectations were but this gardener's expectations were more than met in full and I subsequently purchased it from Amazon. This is one very fine gardening reference!

Gardening with Hardy Heathers
Item received on time and as described. I was not aware until I received the book that its major focus (and printing) is England. How many varieties are here in states I am not sure.

hARDY hEATHERS
This book did not fit any of my needs or expectations. I returned the book.