Product Description

With this beautiful book at your fingertips, you can select, plant and care for the trees and shrubs that suite the conditions present in your garden:
- size, shape and growing zone
- notes on the best features of each species or variety
- what tree or shrub to select for a specific location
- how to plant, prune and propagate
- soil, moisture and sunlight requirements
- year-round maintenance
- tips for solving pest and disease problems
- more than 560 photographs and illustrations

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #747461 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
WILLIAM ALDRICH has written about gardening since 1980, mostly for the Chicago Tribune. He is an award-winning author of more than 200 articles and is a past president of the Garden Writers Association. A lifelong resident of the Chicago area, he founded Chicagoland Gardening Magazine in 1995 and remains its publisher.

DON WILLIAMSON, the co-author of more than a dozen popular gardening guides, has a degree in horticultural technology. He has extensive experience designing and constructing beds in formal landscape settings.

Customer Reviews

Big Help
We live in the Chicago area and this book was a huge help when, after losing three thirty year old pine trees, we needed to purchase new trees for our yard. In the past I have not always found the nursery people very helpful. Mistakes can be very costly in terms of money and labor. I actually brought this book with me and I felt much more confident in my purchases. I will never again go to a nursery to purchase trees or shrubs without it.

great resource
good resource to start your landscaping project. great way to find out which trees and shrubs are best situated in what part of your property.

Great for Beginners -- like me!
This easy to read book is geographically specific.
It gives the beginning gardner a chance to schedule each month in the garden.
I would have liked some more actual instructional information but I will recommend this book