Perennials for Shade: Easy Plants for More Beautiful Gardens (Taylor's 50 Best Series)

By Frances Tenenbaum

Book Overview

Both the Taylor's Guides to individual plant groups and the Taylor's Weekend Guides on basic techniques and popular gardening styles are highly acclaimed and well established. We now enthusiastically... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395873312
• ISBN13: 9780395873311
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Flower Lovers

I have become an avid gardener and love to have flowers all season long. This book has helped me plan a lovely garden for my home. It is colorful and easy to read and understand. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys plants and flowers.

Great garden book

Since much of my yard is shaded, and we still love flowers, this book is just what the Dr. ordered. Have planted several plants described in this book and they are healthy and doing well.

Great book for shade gardeners

I bought this book to help a friend who built her dream house on a wooded lot find plants and flowers that would bloom and grow. We were thrilled to find that all the plants listed would grow in our climate area (Pennsylvania). The book provides a good selection of plants without overwhelming a novice with too many choices and hard-to-find or tricky plants. We were very pleased to be able to find plants that would fit some of her problem areas (under trees, wet spots, etc.) and fit her requirements of providing her with real bloom without having to plant annuals every year.

Short & Sweet!

Perfect! It was exactly what I needed. It gives a nice picture with a quick description of all the essential information on the side and then more, if desired. None of this, "a wonder in your garden... incredibly fragrant and blah, blah, blah.... " Here's the common name, scientific name, partial shade, height, color, etc. I have a big garden and I know what type of light I get and what type of soil I have and what type of flower beds I want. I just need to know what will do well with my situation and skimming through books that do not tell you the gist up front I find incredibly annoying. The best thing about this book is that it gives you a quick description of the flower and then, if you want more information, it gives you the type of family it belongs to, a more in-depth description AND other flowers that would work well and look good with it! What more could you ask for? Maybe more than 50? I wish there were more of these Taylor books.