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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.

Ornamental grasses surpass all other garden plants in their luminous qualities. Their colours are softly sophisticated, varied, and subtle. They include a striking array of textures, forms, sizes, and flowering times and have appeal in the garden throughout the year. Grasses' ethereal quality, sound, and movement make them ideal choices for gardeners and landscape designers alike. Timber Press Pocket Guide to Ornamental Grasses provides an accessible and comprehensive reference to the wide range of grasses available to the gardener. Building on Darke's bestselling The Colour Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses, the guide describes many new species and cultivars, includes dozens of new photographs, and presents cultivation information and descriptions in a handy, compact format. Covering 530 species and cultivars and illustrated with 320 colour photographs, Timber Press Pocket Guide to Ornamental Grasses is a valuable complement to Darke's Colour Encyclopedia. Its convenient format makes it an ideal reference to take to the nursery or garden center.

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

Following a discussion of "North-by-South" landscape basics that weeds out myths about what can grow where and explains microclimate-based landscape design, Francko aptly with Miami U. in Ohio covers four-season care of cold-hardy palms, evergreens, bamboos, and other exotic temperate plants.

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.

Since they were first described in Europe in the 16th century, passionflowers have held a special fascination among plant collectors for their bold, beautiful, complicated blossoms and delectable passionfruits. Most are perennial climbers, but some are trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, or even annuals, and all lend a dramatic, tropical flavor to any situation. Since they have such a broad range of cultivation requirements, passionflowers can be grown by just about anyone, and cold-hardy species can be grown outdoors year-round. This authoritative, comprehensive volume describes 207 Passiflora species and 31 hybrids. A chapter is devoted to the remarkable coevolution of passionflowers with Heliconius butterflies, which many passionflower enthusiasts now raise alongside flowering vines in the greenhouse. As lushly illustrated as it is informative, Passiflora: Passionflowers of the World reveals the immense variation found among members of this extraordinary genus.

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.

This is a unique guide to a wide range of tropical and hot-climate (also known as Mediterranean or desert) plants. The guide is arranged in three sections: a general introduction to choosing, planting, and using subtropical and hot-climate plants with particular emphasis on hardiness and overwintering the plants; the second section that comprises an A - Z plant directory, in which over 700 plants, listed by their botanical names, are treated to in-depth profiles and grouped as either trees, shrubs, perennials, climbers, palms and cycads, cacti and other succulents, or grasses and bamboos; a third section that includes plants for special uses, and a glossary.

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.

This guide to cannas provides information on aspects of cultivation, propagation and controlling pests and diseases. It also includes an insight into the botany and history of cannas, and advice on the best use of the plants in garden setting.

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.

Will Giles reckons that British gardeners are ready to abandon the restrained good taste, subtle border plantings and generally muted palette of the traditional garden in favour of tropical boldness, hot colours and sculptural forms. He may well be right. The various plantings he discusses and illustrates in The New Exotic Garden are extravagant indeed. Huge banana trees, bamboos of all sizes and colours, ferns, gingers, astonishing foliage plants, shrubs like the fabulous Brugmansia, are mingled with familiar exotics like begonias, hostas, clematis and dahlias, made unfamiliar again by their context. This is a very exciting approach to garden-building; and if your tastes lie in the direction of this kind of febrile self-expression, The New Exotic Garden is highly recommended.

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.

Walker describes a subtropical garden as one with luxuriant foliage, with form taking precedence over flowers, and lush in undergrowth and spiked above with palm or tree fern fronds. The term subtropical is used here not in the strict geographic sense but in reference to climates where the summers are warm and winters are mild and frost free. In a chapter called "Plant Architecture," Walker describes in detail such exotic plants as palms, bamboo, tree ferns, and flowering trees. Walker, who lives in New Zealand, also offers advice on growing a vast variety of climbing vines, shrubs, aroids, bromeliads, orchids, and water and bog plants. Adding to the book's interest are 197 color photographs by New Zealand garden photographer Gil Hanly. George Cohen

Tropical gardens can contain a rich diversity of flora due to their climate, and produce some astonishing forms. This compendium presents a selection of these gardens from Hawaii, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and and Indonesia, including Bali. Traditional and modern types are considered, and the origins and individual features are discussed in full. For this revised edition, the author, William Warren and photographer, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, have added some new gardens. The book also includes a section giving information on garden features.

Llamas documents over 1400 flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants commonly grown in tropical and subtopical gardens. She provides thorough information on cultivation for each plant, including growth characteristics, light exposure, cold hardiness and more.

Tropical Garden Plants is an irresistible and vivid compendium of some of the world's most luxuriant and striking plants. Tettoni's meticulously observed photographs are the perfect means of conveying the beauty and extraordinary diversity of tropical botany, while William Warren draws on his wide knowledge to provide commentary on flowering shrubs and annuals, foliage plants, ornamental trees, vines and creepers, palms, exotics, water plants, ground covers, ferns and orchids.

Turn your garden into an exotic jungle paradise! From hardy trees, shrubs, and climbers to robust lily-like rosettes, your dreams of a fantastically lush and colorful landscape can become reality with this guide to designs, practicalities, and plants. Assess your growing environment, and work within its parameters, choosing those plants that can thrive whether there's deep shade or baking sunshine, horrible wet clay or dry, sandy soil. Analyze both the structural aspects and the aesthetics of this wonderfully overgrown setting, plus options for keeping it going year round. A beautifully photographed plant guide presents all the varieties you could wish-herbaceous and biennials; lilies and allies; bromeliads; aroids; tender perennials and annuals; grasses; palms; gingers and bananas; succulents, water plants and more!

This guide covers more than 400 of the most commonly cultivated ornamental plants found in the tropics, identified and beautifully photographed by an expert in tropical botany. The color photographs and accurate descriptions make this book ideal for identifying plants grown in the tropics or cultivated in greenhouses in temperate climates.

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).