Plants for American Landscapes - Hardcover

Neil G. Odenwald (Author), Charles F. Fryling Jr (Author) & Thomas E. Pope (Author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807120936 ISBN 13: 9780807120934

Publisher: LSU Press, 1996

Synopsis

Plants for American Landscapes is a superb practical guide to the identification, selection, and cultivation of over a thousand of the most popular and dependable ornamental plants grown in the United States. With more than a century of collective experience in landscape architecture and horticulture, the authors share their intimate knowledge of flowers, foliage, fruit, and barks, as well as their insights concerning each plant's unique attributes. Their succinct, fact-filled, vivid descriptions present both essential material and fascinating tidbits about which plants are suited to particular environments. Eight hundred full-color photographs display the plants in their natural settings. Homeowners, gardeners, landscape architects and designers, horticulturalists, and anyone who loves plants will find it a resource they turn to again and again.

About this title

Review:

"The authors' scientific and practical 'how-to' knowledge is impecable.... Home gardeners will be just as comfortable using it as professional designers and landscape architects."

About the Author:

Neil G. Odenwald, FASLA, is a professor emeritus of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University and the author of, among other works, Live Oak Splendor: Gardens Along the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans and, with Charles F. Fryling, Jr., and Thomas E. Pope, Attracting Birds to Southern Gardens.

Charles F. Fryling, Jr., ASLA, is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University.

Thomas E. Pope is the former Louisiana Cooperative Extension landscape horticulture specialist.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0807120936
• ISBN 13: 9780807120934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250