Cushion Plants for the Rock Garden - Hardcover

Lowe, Duncan B.

9780881923452: Cushion Plants for the Rock Garden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881923451 ISBN 13: 9780881923452

Publisher: Timber Pr, 1996

Cushion plants play a charming and essential part in every well-planned rock garden. They all form, more or less, a mound of closely packed foliage, and offer great beauty and a diversity of size, leaf, and flower. Cushion Plants for the Rock Garden details the major groups - including both easy-to-grow varieties and those exquisite rarities that are more demanding - for their cultivation, propagation, pests, and diseases. All details are provided for successful cultivation in pots, troughs, plunge beds, and various other appropriate sites, plus information on pests and diseases. In all, 87 plants are described fully so that every reader will know which he or she wants to try first.Published at $29.95 Our last copies available at $14.98

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An authoritative, practical manual on the growing of rock garden plants characterized by their formation (more or less) of a mound of closely packed foliage. The author describes how these plants have evolved to thrive in harsh alpine surroundings, and then proceeds to discuss cultivation and propagation of the easy-to-grow varieties as well as the

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