Product Description

Southern gardeners will welcome this informative guide to selecting landscape plants that not only survive but also thrive in the humid summer conditions found in the southern and coastal regions of the United States. The down-to-earth advice takes the guesswork out of what plants will work where and provides imaginative techniques for both the traditional and more ecologically oriented gardener. Plant materials and their characteristics are discussed in relation to their heat zones, and readers can refer to the included American Horticultural Society Heat Zone map.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #893425 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 82 pages

Review
If you want to know how to keep [plants] happy, this book [is] a reference you can count on. -- New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 10, 2007

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From the Back Cover
Leading specialists on southern gardening answer challenging questions about what works where and why in the hot, muggy climates of the southern gardening zones. A bookboiling over with reliable advice and inspired gardening solutions.
End frustration and confusion over which plants will survive the heat of summer
A reliable source for longtime southern gardeners as well as those who have moved to the Sunbelt.
At-a-Glance charts tell which plants can tolate excessive rainfall or drought, sun or shade.
Includes information on ornamental grasses, annual vines and shrubs of all sizes.
Tips on low-maintence landscape with attractive and hardly native plants.
Provides data on the ornamental value of each plant, whether in berries, flowers, leaves or fruit.
P.J. Gartin, a garden writer and hortivulturist, is a Clemson Univirsity Extension Service Master Gardener whose feature articles appear often in southern gardening publications. She also appears on radio and television broadcasts and lectures throughout the region.
F. Brian Smith is widely known to gardeners through his television and radio broadcasts. He has served since 1988 as an Extension Agent for Clemson University and is also an instructor for the South Carolina Nursery and Landscape Association.
The authors live in Charleston, South, Carolina.

Customer Reviews

Good plant guide for the extreme Southeast
This little book is a great guide for gardeners in zones 8 and 9 and even the more temperate regions of zone 7. Chapters are divided by Ornamental Grasses, Annual Vines, Small Shrubs, Small to Medium Shrubs, Medium to Large Shrubs, and Large Shrubs and Small Patio Trees. Each chapter profiles several plants that thrive in the hot and humid regions of the south. The plant profiles are very good and detailed and provide excellent descriptions as well as sound horiticultural advice. Each plant is illustrated with one or more color photos. Also very helpful is a chart covering the various sizes and characteristics of crepe mrytles. The last section of the book lists plants by various characteristics, such as light requirements, soil types, fragrance, color, etc. This is a good book for gardeners looking to experiment with unique and exciting plants and also very good for the transplanted gardener who has just moved to the southeast.