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Landscape
Plants for
Subtropical Climates
by Bijan Dehgan
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From Florida to California and on to Hawaii, gardeners who want a
current, thorough, and user-friendly guide to the common indoor
foliage and outdoor landscape plants for U.S. Department of
Agriculture zones 8, 9, 10, and 11 will welcome this fully
illustrated book.
With precise line drawings for nearly 500 plant species, the work
presents a description of cultivated ferns, cone-bearing plants,
and flowering ornamental plants for warmer climates. It offers a
description of the families, essential identifying features, and
horticultural information for each plant, including origin, cold
hardiness zones, propagation techniques, and soil, fertilizer,
irrigation, and light requirements. The author also discusses
identification features under clearly demarcated headings of
growth habit, foliage, stem and bark, flower, and fruit. With a
comprehensive glossary of terms commonly used in plant
identification and a cross-referenced index of common and
scientific names, readers will be able to find information with
minimal effort.
This book is intended for use by backyard gardeners and will be
especially handy for newcomers to warm temperate and subtropical
areas who seek a reliable resource for plant selection and care.
In addition, it will be indispensable to garden clubs, volunteer
Master Gardeners, nursery professionals, extension agents, and
landscape architects. It also can serve as a plant identification
text for students of environmental horticulture, forestry, and
other plant science-related fields.
Bijan Dehgan is professor of environmental
horticulture at the University of Florida. He is internationally
recognized for his taxonomic and horticultural research and major
publications on the endangered sago palms (cycads) and the physic
nuts (Jatropha).
1998. 640
pp. 7 X 10.
USDA
Cold hardiness zone map, 575 line drawings, index,
glossary.
ISBN
0-8130-1627-4 Cloth, $49.95sISBN 0-8130-1628-2 Paper,$24.95
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"In one volume this book seems to
encompass all the plants native and exotic grown in Florida. No
small feat! . . . No other reference work that I know of covers
the field as comprehensively as this."--Edward Golden,
horticutural consultant, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
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