Plants - Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Ornamental & Garden Plants

Flowering Shrubs

Name: Flowering Shrubs
Author: Isabel Zucker, Derek Fell
ISBN: 9781567992076

by Isabel Zucker, Derek Fell

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Overview

Many gardeners successfully grow colorful flower gardens without realizing how much more they could achieve if they considered working larger flowering plants into their landscape. This thorough guide teaches you about the life cycle of shrubs and small trees: how to choose a healthy baby from a nursery and how to rejuvenate an over-mature shrub.

You will learn the important signs to look for during your plant's adolescent years - holes in your plant's leaves, for example, could indicate your plant has been associating with the wrong type of insects - and ways to ensure your mature plant stays healthy - for example, how much space it needs as it grows. Particularly convenient are the Bloom Time Chart that foreshadows when plants will flower and when they will bear fruit; the chart that tells which plants you'll be most compatible with, listing the conditions they grow best in, their height, and how easy they are to maintain; and the Hardiness Zone Map.