landscape plants

Contains guidance and resources for North American gardeners, discussing planning and design, presenting photos of one thousand plants, and providing an alphabetized encyclopedia of three thousand species, which covers their hardiness, height and spread, appearance, and growing instructions.

A guide to designing a mixed garden that provides information on design fundamentals, color combinations, translating designs from paper to reality, and other related topics.

Presents brief, photo-illustrated profiles of more than a thousand plants, each with descriptions and information on cultivation, soil moisture and sun/shade preferences, hardiness and heat zone ranges, and heights and widths, and provides nearly sixty plant lists for special purposes or requirements, such as summer color, scented flowers, shade, or poor soil.