Gardener's guide to tropical plants cool ways to add hot colors, bold foliage, and striking textures Nellie Neal.
Detalles de publicación: Minneapolis, MN Cool Springs Press 2012.Descripción: 240 p. col. ill., col. map 26 cmISBN:- 9781591865322 (pbk.)
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- SB405 .N37 2012
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Now gardeners can bring an exotic flair to their gardens by introducing the color, textures, and fabulous foliage of tropical plants. Not just for hot climates anymore, bromeliads, orchids, bananas, palms, birds of paradise, elephant ears, canna, and more can bring a touch of the tropics to any garden. Gardener's can choose from more than 150 plants featured in this book, each chosen for the visual impact it adds to any landscape or container garden. Plants are organized by a range of clearly defined zones, making it easy for gardeners to find the plants that will succeed in their landscape. Author Nellie Neal explains how to best use tropical plants both indoors and out. To make this book a universally useful guide, it is organized to explain how to grow tropical plants in a wide range of clearly defined zones. Further, the book illustrates how to best use these plants in landscapes and containers, indoors and out, no matter where you live. It is a practical, user-friendly celebration of tropical plants.
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 218) and index.
Welcome to growing tropical plants -- In your garden : where and how tropicals grow -- Controlling pests and diseases : tips and techniques -- Propagation : the more the merrier -- Design and garden use : why we love tropicals -- Container gardening : tropicals in pots, baskets, and boards -- Bringing tropical plants indoors : breathe easier -- Features tropicals : herbaceous tropicals ; woody tropicals ; vining tropicals -- Plants for special sites -- Plants for special features.
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- Plants for Special Features(p. 213)
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Nellie Neal is a garden writer and radio host who's known to many as "the Garden Mama." She learned to garden in her native north Louisiana and spent her childhood visiting relatives all over Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. After years in California and south Louisiana, Nellie made her home in central Mississippi and began her radio programs and website, www.gardenmama.com. She earned her gardening stripes through hands-on gardening in hot, humid, and sometimes buggy conditions. Today she gardens with her husband, Dave Ingram, and visits their children in New Orleans.