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Landscaping with Tropical Plants: Design Ideas, Creative Garden Plans, Cold-Climate Solutions


  • ISBN13: 9780376034571
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
Imagine the lush possibilities. In one volume with over 200 photographs, readers will discover how to grow an entire spectrum of exciting new plants in their home gardens. This book reveals the types of tropical plants that are right for your site, no matter what your climate. In addition, it will tell how to get various plants through the winter and into the next growing season. Just the thing for the gardener who wants to incorporate the exotic into the usual land… More >>

Landscaping with Tropical Plants: Design Ideas, Creative Garden Plans, Cold-Climate Solutions

  1. #1 by Erin Anderson on May 15, 2010 - 8:37 pm

    This is a great book, just what I needed to create a tropical look with the right plants. Great pictures!
    Rating: 4 / 5

  2. #2 by Stephanie Cphen on May 15, 2010 - 9:54 pm

    Sorry to say, the book will not meet the needs of the average or above average gardener.

    It is meant for a landscape architect. Almost nothing is applicable to gardens in the USA.
    Rating: 3 / 5

  3. #3 by Sheri Ann Johnson on May 15, 2010 - 10:21 pm

    This book has spectacular pictures of tropicals! Great source of info on how to properly take cuttings from your garden to make new plants.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  4. #4 by Marcos Barinas Uribe on May 16, 2010 - 12:42 am

    If you are intending to get professional advicing on using Tropical plants avoid this book, however if you are planning your own home garden it is a very didactic and fun to read book.
    Rating: 3 / 5

  5. #5 by Alain Moreau on May 16, 2010 - 12:57 am

    This book is one of the best books for planning and designing a tropical garden. If you live in USDA Zone 8 or higher you can make very good use of this book, though it also offers suggestions on how to achieve a tropical “effect” in colder zones as well. I grow many of the plants they suggest in my Pasadena, CA garden and have had great success with them.

    This book is especially useful in explaining the elements of a tropical landscape, contains a sampler of tropical plants for home gardens, and labels photographs fairly well (with the exception of one major gaffe – mislabeling a Strelizia reginae as a Banana – twice).

    Over all, this is a useful, well-written book for the home gardener.
    Rating: 4 / 5