Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening & Conservation by Donald J. Leopold (Author). When you've at all times wished to garden with native crops, this e book is for you. With entries for nearly seven-hundred species of native trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers from the northeastern quarter of the U.S. and eastern Canada, its complete horticultural coverage is unsurpassed by any other single volume. The pure ranges of many of the vegetation discussed prolong beyond the Northeast; the data on horticultural makes use of applies to any garden. Each plant description consists of information about cultivation and propagation, ranges, and hardiness. An appendix recommends particular vegetation for tough conditions, as well as attracting butterflies, hummingbirds, and other wildlife. Illustrated all through with color photographs.
This can be a great information of students finding out Landscape Architecture. It really works properly with plant identification lessons and offers the reader alternate options to work with other than the typical non-natives seen in lots of planting beds.
The photographs are gorgeous and allows the reader to use the color type and texture of these plants in their design.
This ebook has helped me become more conscious of my choices in order that I possibly an accountable designer when I enter the skilled world.
This is a completely fantastic ebook on the native vegetation of New England. It has just about every native plant I've ever heard of, with stunning photos, detailed descriptions, helpful information. Each plant has the zones it would grow in, soil most popular (including moisture - very useful!) and the light the plant will tolerate. In addition, it describes the plant attributes, easy methods to propagate, the pure variety of the plant, and most plants have specific cultivars picked out as superior, and typically what roles the plant performs within the ecosystem. Nearly every plant has a photograph. Incredibly useful.
I like how the e-book is organized - by type of plant (fern, grass, shrub, tree, vine, and so on), then by Latin name. There is a complete index if you do not know the Latin name. Also extremely helpful is the set of lists within the again - vegetation that tolerate moist soil, crops for dry soil, plants that tolerate shade, vegetation for butterflies and hummingbirds, crops with fruits for birds, vegetation with fruits for mammals - all organized by the light tolerance of the plant and plant type. Additionally helpful was the introduction, which describes the completely different kinds of plant communities.
There are extra detailed reference books out there, but as far as a good reference for the odd gardener, with COLOR pictures, this is the very best!
Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening & Conservation
Donald J. Leopold (Author)
308 pages
Timber Press; REPRINT edition (February 8, 2005)
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