Product Description

Does your garden lack zing? Are your borders a bore? Spice them up with a touch of the tropics! Tropical plants bring sizzle to every garden. Bananas in Maine, cannas in Canada—these plants can be grown everywhere. Whether used in containers or planted directly in the ground, their bold leaves and over-the-top flowers create instant drama. Pam Baggett chooses 100 of the best tropical plants and shows readers how to grow them, how to combine them with other plants, and how to make eye-popping compositions of color and pattern. Love flaming orange? Try cannas, lantanas, and 'Fire Dragon' coleus. Screaming magenta more your taste? Go for hot-pink four o'clocks, bloodleaf, and 'Cranberry Punch' pentas. If you're passionate about purple, grab princess flower, Brazilian skyflower, and 'Purple Majesty' sage. ¡Tropicalismo! offers hundreds of ideas for turning gardens, decks, and patios into a visual fiesta. A taste of the tropics is all it takes to turn your garden into a paradise.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #397406 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780881929478
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
“. . . makes you want to go out this weekend to buy plants. Author Pam Baggett has written an easy-to-read paperback highlighting 100 tropical plants. This is more than just another plant identification book.” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel )

“You’ll see cannas to fulfill your wildest Technicolor dreams, from lemon-lime striped ‘Bengal Tiger’ to purplish mocha ‘Constitution.’ And there are nearly 100 other plants to experiment with, from strawberry firetail, with blooms that resemble furry scarlet caterpillars, to the darkly dramatic chocolate caricature plant. If you’re looking for ways to add some tropical punch to your pots and plots next summer, ¡Tropicalismo! is worth a look.”

(Minneapolis Star Tribune )

¡Tropicalismo! provides a flash of inspiration that will have you even more anxious for spring to arrive.”

(Northwest Indiana Times )

"[A] thoughtful, well-organized, flip-through idea book of tropical plants."

(Garden Design )

[Baggett] makes all of the plants sound exotic and alluring, which is the whole point of adding a tropical or two to your garden setting.

(Cleveland Plain Dealer )

About the Author
Pam Baggett is a freelance writer and photographer who previously owned Singing Springs Nursery, in Cedar Grove, NC. Her articles have appeared in publications including Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and The American Gardener, and she has won the Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association.

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Customer Reviews

Wonderful book!
Pam Baggett describes plants like no one else in the business -- her descriptions are detailed, intimate, and always on target. An incredibly useful resource for those looking for specifics about individual plants (including gorgeous photos) and some suggestions for appropriate partnerings. Clearly the publisher's format limits what can be done, but this is a delightful little "sonnet" of a garden book, working beautifully within the constraints of its form to inform and inspire us.

Worth every penny!
Those of you who remember Pam's fantastic and much-missed nursery, Singing Springs Nursery, will be as happy as I am to relive the fun of reading her personality-packed plant descriptions. Each entry includes suggestions of compatible companions for inspiring container and garden combinations, too.

Review the "Search Inside This Book"
I have to agree with the low rating reviewer - just review the "Search Inside this Book" feature, and you can see that the book has no good photos of tropical landscapes. If you want pictures of single tropical plants, you can get those from any garden supply magazine.

The author would do well to update the book with photos of tropical style gardens, showing how others have "spiced up their gardnes" and created the "tropical environment". Before and after photos would be nice but aren't even necessary - just great photos of tropical style gardens would be a significant improvement.