subject: The Plant Finder. A Review [print this page] The Plant Finder: The Right Plants for Every Garden / by Geoff Bryant and Tony Rodd. Hardcover, 992 p. ISBN 9781554072651
The Plant Finder profiles more than 5,000 plants. Each description begins with a chart that provides such basic information as plant type, its size and spread, the climate it prefers, its flowering season, its botanical name, and other basic important details. It continues with a prose description of the plant and its popular cultivars. Most of the descriptions have excellent color photographs.
Plants are arranged by type: trees and shrubs, fruit trees, annual and perennial flowers, bulbs, ferns, vegetables, grasses, and so on. The index contains all the common names, all the botanical names. You can even find plants by color, a very important consideration for anyone who wants to set aside parts of the garden for a particular color scheme.
At nearly 1000 pages, it is a heavy book, but at only 8.4" x 6.4" it is easy hold it in one hand, at least for a while. That makes it a great resource to take to the nursery when choosing plants for your own garden. If you already have plants that are not thriving, The Plant Finder can help you figure out why. It has little horticultural advice, however. The book's purpose is to help readers indentify plants.
The Plant Finder's encyclopedic overview of nearly every imaginable garden plant, along with its beautiful illustrations, makes it an excellent reference work. Professional gardeners and serious amateurs will get great use of it. The All-Purpose Guru Alert features good books like this, one carefully chosen title every day. Bookmark it and visit regularly.
The Plant Finder. A Review
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