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Success With Shade-Loving Plants
Celebrate the low-light areas of the garden; the trick is knowing which plants to choose, and then placing them properly for best success. Written by a renowned horticulturist and former gardener at London’s Buckingham Palace, this field guide continues the well-received Success with gardening series, and covers selecting, buying, and placing shade-tolerant plants. There are also complete instructions for pruning, feeding, managing diseases and pests, and other essential maintenance. And with an exhaustive plant directory, ideas for designing gardens to fit new or existing landscapes, tips for managing weeds and fungi, gardening successfully in damp or dry soil, as well as handling mixed-light gardening situations, this is surely an essential reference.
160 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
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April 10, 2022
This book lists USSR as the origin region for Scilla but was supposedly published in 2007. 🤔
It promotes some invasive species and widely promotes the use of herbicides and insecticides.
It says cosmos (and other sun loving plants) can be grown in light shade when they must have sun to bloom. It says hostas can be grown in full sun, where they would be really unhappy.
This book seems to have been written for both a U.S. and U.K. audience, but the author is British, so much of the advice applies exclusively to the British Isles. The USDA zone maps provided show the U.K. is more on par with Southern coastal regions, so this book won’t be helpful for many other Southern gardeners (who may try to grow cosmos in shade much to their disappointment).
On the plus side, all suggested plants had pictures. I would have like to see more examples of shady gardens.
I’d skip this book.
It promotes some invasive species and widely promotes the use of herbicides and insecticides.
It says cosmos (and other sun loving plants) can be grown in light shade when they must have sun to bloom. It says hostas can be grown in full sun, where they would be really unhappy.
This book seems to have been written for both a U.S. and U.K. audience, but the author is British, so much of the advice applies exclusively to the British Isles. The USDA zone maps provided show the U.K. is more on par with Southern coastal regions, so this book won’t be helpful for many other Southern gardeners (who may try to grow cosmos in shade much to their disappointment).
On the plus side, all suggested plants had pictures. I would have like to see more examples of shady gardens.
I’d skip this book.
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