Dirr's Trees and Shrubs for Warm Climates: an Illustrated Encyclopedia - Hardcover

Dirr, Michael

 
9780881925258: Dirr's Trees and Shrubs for Warm Climates: an Illustrated Encyclopedia
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 088192525X ISBN 13: 9780881925258
Verlag: Timber Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Following the phenomenal success of "Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs", written for gardeners in the climates of USDA zones 3-6, this companion volume is a superlative photographic encyclopedia of trees, shrubs, and vines for 'warm temperate' zones. In North America, these areas (zones 7-11) stretch from the Mid-Atlantic states to the South, include most of Texas and the Southwest, and encompass the entire West Coast, up to western Canada. Many parts of the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand experience similar conditions. In a nutshell, any gardener who lives in an area where average winter temperatures do not fall below 0- Fahrenheit (-18- Celsius) will want this book, and curious gardeners in colder zones may well want to test these select plants in their local microclimates. This remarkable volume shows both the habit and details - flower, fruit, bark, and fall color - of more than 400 species and describes hundreds more cultivars and varieties. Certain genera offer myriad hybrids and selections, and photographs of many of the best of these are included as well - nearly 40 named crapemyrtles, a dozen teaolives, and 11 loropetalums. In all, more than 1400 photographs join with the authoritative text to bring the plants to life. From Abelia to Ziziphus, gardeners will encounter many new and unfamiliar plants that thrive in warmer climates. Dirr gives special attention to hardy palms that can survive outside the subtropics. The book also reflects the author's inimitable personality, which holds nothing back when a plant deserves outright acclaim ('If prescriptions could be written for perfect garden plants, this species would come close to filling the order'), backhanded praise ('Use for accent, for novelty, or to drive visitors loony'), or frank condemnation ('Splays to the point of no redemption with time'). The book concludes with useful lists for selecting plants for a variety of conditions or for ornamental characteristics, such as flower color and fragrance, fruit, and fall color.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, Michael A. Dirr is a legend in the horticultural world and has tremendous energy for teaching about plants, writing about plants, and especially for growing plants. Michael worked at a nursery and garden center to pay his way through university while earning his bachelor and master of science degrees at Ohio State. He went on to earn a doctorate in plant physiology at the University of Massachusetts and began his teaching career in 1972 as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois. Michael has published more then 300 scientific and popular papers and articles. His teaching, lectures, seminars, garden study tours, and plant introduction programs have contributed enormously to greater horticultural awareness, and his book Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs is one of Timber's bestselling titles. He has received numerous awards and honors during his career, most recently the Liberty Hyde Bailey Medal from the American Horticulture Society. Today, he travels widely to lecture, teach, and form new opinions of plants.

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What a wonderful chance discovery about eight years past at an antebellum home across from the Georgia campus, where a low subshrub with pink wisteria-like flowers was growing in the shade of pecan trees. Another key-out quest was performed, with this species surfacing as the leading candidate. A suckering, spreading shrub with seven to thirteen, 1 to 2 1/2-inch long rich green leaflets per leaf. Flowers, each 3/4 in. long, pink, in 4 to 8 in. long, 20 to 40 flowered racemes, explode in May and continue sporadically into August and September on new growth. Have yet to observe fruit set. I hope to breed this species with the others for improved floral characteristics. Prefers moist, moderately fertile, acid soil in partial shade (best) to full sun. Some foliage lightening in full sun but no diminution in floral production. Displays excellent heat and drought tolerance. Use as a groundcover in shade, at the front of a border, and in bank plantings. Ond of Bonnie's favorite plants. Our fine colony prospers under the shade of a Southern Red Oak, Quercus falcata. Grows 12 to 18 in. high, spreads indefinitely. Zones 6 tp 7(8). China, Japan.

Cultivars and varieties. 'Alba', with white flowers, is in cultivation. 'Rosea' has deeper pink flowers with a hint of lavender.

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Verlag
Timber Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
088192525X
ISBN 13 
9780881925258
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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