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This pictorialencyclopedia illustrates more than 500 tropical trees, shrubs, and vines, showing mature plants in landscape settings. Each photograph is accompanied by a brief description indicating the plant’s family and origin, dimensions, and common name. It is a perfect planning resource for gardeners in Hawaii, southern California, and Florida, and similar tropical or subtropical areas. And its use is not limited to tropical areas, as we sell copies almost everywhere in the world to greenhouse gardeners who grow these tender exotics under cover. It also serves as a carry-along companion for plant lovers who travel to the tropics and want a guide to identify the striking and unfamiliar plants they encounter, from the spectacular royal poinciana (Delonix regia) and Jacaranda mimosifolia to the weird baobab (Adansonia digitata) and travelers palm (Ravenala madagascariensis).

Bamboos are among the most fascinating of plants. Their unusual life cycle, tremendous power of growth, and extraordinary diversity of size and form give them a special significance in gardens. And gardens of all sizes can accommodate these elegant plants, which are cold-resistant and surprisingly easy to grow. Yet even today, with bamboos enjoying a well-deserved return to popularity, their horticultural potential remains largely untapped. Some bamboos make impressive specimens for the border, others form a fast-growing hedge or screen, and short forms provide a leafy groundcover. David Crompton explains the characteristics that set bamboos apart, and everything that is needed to grow them successfully. The core of the book is a gardener's guide to nearly two hundred ornamental bamboos to grow and enjoy, supplemented by lists of bamboos for specific purposes.

For gardeners lucky enough to live in the subtropical and tropical zones, here are 83 shrubs they can count on to display beautiful flowers and/or colourful, interesting leaves. Stunning colour photos and practical advice make this book an inspiration as well as a how-to manual for those who want their gardens to put on a tropical show throughout the year.
You’ll find beautiful full-colour photos as well as a full information profile for each shrub, including country of origin, drought and salt tolerance, growth rate, suitable soils, preferred sun exposure, mature size and form, flowers and fruits, and potential insect and disease problems, as well as brief remarks on species, hybrids, invasiveness, flower colours, fruit uses, and planting considerations. Amanda Jarrett is a horticultural consultant, writer, photographer, instructor, and lecturer living in Florida

This is an easy, practical guide to cultivating and identifying over 100 species of palms. Colour photographs illustrate each entry and aid identification, and the text provides comprehensive descriptions of appearance, structure and habitat.

Plants for Tropical Landscapes: A Gardener's Guide by Fred D. Rauch & Paul R. Weissich

A guide for gardeners to more than 500 common plants for tropical landscapes. Plants are organized by size and are illustrated with colour photographs to aid in their identification. There are guidelines on plant characteristics, soil and water requirements, and suggested landscape uses

Although it says on the cover it is "the ultimate guide to growing successfully from seed", I thought this might be hype but it really is an excellent book. You can even experiment with collecting your own seeds from the sort of shrubs and trees only specialists would normally try. Jekka McVicar covers all aspects of seed sowing from alpines, climbers, to shrubs, trees and vegetables. Sadly though not tropical plants.

Provides an elegantly and precisely written introduction to the many ornamental plants grown in subtropical regions of the world. Covered in the volume are trees, shrubs, palms and cycads, climbers, orchids, bulbs and perennials, succulents, bromeliads, and fruit. Includes some 200 fine color photography.

Growing plants from seeds is both enthralling and satisfying. Most of our garden and house plants can be raised successfully from seed. This practical book is for gardeners of all levels of ability who are keen to try their hand at sowing and growing their own plants. A practical guide for beginners and experienced gardeners.

Out of her extensive experience of growing plants under glass, author and broadcaster Anne Swithinbank has written this guide to conservatory plants and how to grow them. The core of the book is an illustrated encyclopaedic catalogue of more than 1000 of the best conservatory plants. Selected for their attractiveness and usefulness, the plants are described in detail with full information about their cultivation. They are arranged according to use - for dramatic impact or as background, for seasonal interest or temporary display. There is also practical advice on feeding and watering, ways of regulating light, temperature and humidity, and step-by-step propagation.

The Jade Garden is an authoritative guide to 130 of the most fascinating yet little-known ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials from Asia. Based on detailed research and observation at one of the largest and oldest collections of Asian plants in North America - the David C. Lam Asian Garden at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden in Canada - the subjects of this book were chosen for their superior garden qualities, their rarity in everyday horticulture and their commercial availability.

Together with chapters on using and displaying, cultivating and caring for tender perennials, a large part of this guide is devoted to a well-documented and fully illustrated plant directory which describes over 250 different species to be grown in mixed borders, containers or conservatories.

Protea specialist Lewis Matthews offers a valuable and much-needed treatment of the family Proteaceae , focusing on some of the most popular and attractive 24 genera including Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea, Knightia, Leucospermum, Macadamia, Protea, and others. Covers cultivation requirements, as well as a section on cut flower production.

This pictorial encyclopedia illustrates more than 500 tropical trees, shrubs, and vines, showing mature plants in landscape settings. Each photograph is accompanied by a brief description indicating the plant’s family and origin, dimensions, and common name. It is a perfect planning resource for gardeners in tropical locations but its use is not limited to tropical areas but also to greenhouse gardeners who grow these tender exotics under cover. It also serves as a carry-along companion for plant lovers who travel to the tropics and want a guide to identify the striking and unfamiliar plants they encounter, from the spectacular royal poinciana (Delonix regia) and Jacaranda mimosifolia to the weird baobab (Adansonia digitata) and travelers palm (Ravenala madagascariensis).