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Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Arborvitae
Author: The Complete Plant Selection Guide for Landscape Design
Author: Marc C. StoeckleinPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535469
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
This book is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for choosing plant material for landscape designs. This reference manual includes comprehensive lists with search criteria for each of the major plant groups, including trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennials, vines, grasses, and ferns. These plant groups contain hundreds of specific species, varieties, and cultivars that are readily available in the marketplace from the major production nurseries. Landscape architects, designers, contractors, or anyone who designs with plants, can easily choose plants that will work on their site. The book is technical enough for the professional, yet simple enough to be used by the layperson. Both botanical and common names are used and an extensive amount of cultural and environmental information is presented. While many other books of this kind give only basic information such as sun/shade, height/width, there are so many as 30 specific categories for each plant group. The categories cover such important criteria as light and soil requirements, zone hardiness, height and width, pest and disease susceptibility, urban tolerance, and tolerance to salt and drought. The lists also include many criteria often overlooked such as growth rates, overall messiness, root systems, minimal fall clean up, maintenance levels, soil PH and landscape value/use, and many visual characteristics such as texture, foliage color and fall colors, bloom colors and seasons, shapes and forms, attractive bark and foliage and more. There is also a candid Pros & Cons section covering some realistic considerations for each of the plant species groups.
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Author: Bulletin
Author: Soil Survey of Bureau County, Illinois
Author: S. E. ZwickerPublisher:
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Category : Soil surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Soil Survey of Mercer County, Illinois
Author: Steven L. ElmerPublisher:
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Category : Soil surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Complete Garden
Author: Albert Davis TaylorPublisher:
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Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The National Nurseryman
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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Georgia Getting Started Garden Guide
Author: Erica GlasenerPublisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 1610589548
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices.  It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.Â
The World of Northern Evergreens
Author: E. C. PielouPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801494246
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The northern coniferous forests are the most extensive in the world, covering large tracts across the boreal regions of North America, Europe, and Asia. This updated edition (1st ed., CH, Dec'88, 26-2133) provides an overview of these forests from the perspective of North America. Pielou (The Energy of Nature, CH, Oct'01, 39-0997; Fresh Water, CH, Mar'99, 36-3926) discusses the types of trees present, the interactions of trees with other organisms, and the fate of forests in a changing environment. The book is aimed at general readers, who might include interested amateurs or students in an introductory forestry course. It introduces tree taxonomy and identification along with commentary on past and present distributions and the basic morphology of trees. Pielou outlines the importance of fungi and insects in interactions and environmental factors, such as storm damage and fire, that can modify the dynamics within forested ecosystems. He presents all information in an ecological context. Informative line drawings, including anatomical details of many organisms, support the text. Because this is an introductory work, suggestions for further reading would have been helpful; however, the book is still useful for newcomers to the subject. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general readers. D. H. Pfister Harvard University--Choice Reviews.