Trees of Seattle: The Complete Tree-Finder's Guide to the City's 740 Varieties

by Arthur Lee Jacobson

Book Overview

With listings from Acacia to Zelkova, this is the most comprehensive guide to trees in the Northwest. A delight to read, combining legends and lore with tips on care and planting, this guide is a must... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091236534X
• ISBN13: 9780912365343
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great for planning ahead

We use this book whenever we are thinking about planting a tree in our yard. For some reason, everything seems to grow far bigger than the nursery tags indicate, and many species look far different when young than as more mature trees. It's great to be able to see not only pictures, but to be able to drive to specific locations to see the tree in a mature state, as it may look in our own yard in many years. That's prevented a few "mistakes" in selection.

Comprehensive and easy to use

This book is great. We use it at least a couple of times a week for ecological restoration.

This was a classic book

When this book was published in 1990, it virtually created a new genre: the local tree guide. By combining clear, simple descriptions of hundreds of local area species (about 30 native, and the rest ornamental) and providing information on where you could go see the tree, it became possible for people to both learn a wide variety of trees and to learn more about the natural heritage of a place - in this case, Seattle. A second edition of this book has just (February 2006) been published; it contains almost twice as many species, many more color photographs, and a far longer list of specimen trees.