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Growing Conifers
The Complete Illustrated Gardening and Landscaping Guide
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This book is ideal for home gardeners and landscape professionals seeking to enhance their gardens with conifers. It suits those interested in sustainable gardening and ecological benefits offered by evergreen plants, as well as plant enthusiasts eager to deepen their understanding of conifer cultivation and landscape design.
Growing Conifers is a beautifully photographed, comprehensive guide for cultivating, gardening, and landscaping with conifers. It covers ecological benefits, science-based placement, cultivar descriptions and selection, growing requirements, landscape maintenance, and climate benefits of evergreens.
Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifers
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Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifers.
Growing Conifers is a beautifully photographed, comprehensive gardening guide for selecting and cultivating conifers. Coverage includes:
- Conifer taxonomy, classification, and geographic distribution
- Selecting conifers for size, shape, colour, and texture
- Best practices for placement and planting of trees, shrubs, and groundcovers in urban and rural gardens
- Growing needs and low-input maintenance
- Building healthy soil, minimising water stress, and integrated pest management
- Benefits of conifers including habitat, water and air quality, carbon sequestration, aesthetics, and food
Conifers are often overlooked in gardening and landscaping in favour of deciduous trees and shrubs. Yet conifers come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colours and offer tremendous aesthetic and ecological benefits for any garden.
Growing Conifers is an essential, comprehensive resource for gardeners and landscape professionals looking to develop beautiful, sustainable landscapes.
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Praised for its encyclopedic detail and poetic prose, Growing Conifers is lauded as both informative and visually stunning. Jeff Lowenfels describes it as a "wonderful, fantastic" resource complemented by exceptional photography. David Olszyk regards the book as an indispensable guide for both home gardeners and specialists, highlighting its ability to inspire and educate with decades of expert knowledge. The reviews affirm its value for anyone interested in cultivating these captivating, sustainable plants.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780865719569
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 May 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Illustration: 120 Halftones, color
Contributors:
- Photographs by David E Perry
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 203.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 635g
Pages: 224
About the Author
John J. Albers has over 30 years of experience growing and caring for conifers in a variety of garden situations. He is an educator for the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association (WSNLA), an ecoPRO-certified sustainable landscape professional, and a former Washington State University / Kitsap County Master Gardener. He created Albers Vista Gardens, a 4-acre property containing 1,200 different species and cultivars, including 500 different conifers representing 130 different conifer species. John is author of The Northwest Garden Manifesto and a frequent presenter to garden clubs, master gardeners, members of the nursery and landscape industry, and the general public. He lives in Bremerton, Washington.
David E. Perry is a professional photographer who has photographed for books, including The Northwest Garden Manifesto, magazines, Fortune 500 corporate annual reports, and national ad campaigns for more than 35 years. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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