Taylor's Guide To Shrubs

Taylor's Guides to Gardening

by Norman Taylor

Shrubs provide the bones of the landscape. They are versatile, useful, and beautiful. They mark boundaries, create barriers, deter animals, frame views, and block eyesores. Shrubs can promote privacy, offer a welcome to guests, or act as a background in a border. As ground covers, they can control erosion or act as an attractive, low-maintenance alternative to lawns. In their all-season versatility, they provide flowers and fragrance, colorful foliage, berries for the birds, and green color in winter. Because shrubs are not throwaway plants, it's all the more important to buy the right shrub for the right place. Too many gardeners have had the experience of putting in a neat little shrub and watching it grow to be a window-blocking monster. With this expert guide, readers will buy the right shrub in the first place and learn how to keep it looking its best.

Genres: Gardening, Reference, Nonfiction

480 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 1987

Reviews

[Julie Fukuda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like the companion book about trees, this book has good information about all kinds of shrubs suited to your gardening conditions, area, seasonal blooming, planting and maintenance. I would highly recommend it for anyone wanting to plan their garden, even finding low maintenance plants that will thrive on neglect.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of course I'd like a Taylor's Guide to my own ZONE! So many of the shrubs that I was oooohing and ahhhhing about wouldn't thrive here :(