Publisher's Synopsis
This comprehensive reference tool offers home and commercial gardeners, landscape contractors, landscape architects and nursery proprietors, descriptions, specifications, trouble-shooting information and usage tips on more than 6000 garden plants. Both amateur and professional gardeners will learn how to maintain existing gardens and choose plants for new gardens. The text aims to update readers on new approaches to pest control and watering. Cloning is examined in detail with descriptive information and growing instructions on the newest plants. How-to sections teach the plan, design and establishment of specific types of gardens. Appendices provide a guide to individual plant, soil and sun requirements.