The Complete Handbook of Garden Plants

by Michael Wright

Book Overview

This beautiful guide offers more plants, more detailed information, and more full-color original watercolor illustrations than any other popular gardening book ever published. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871966328
• ISBN13: 9780871966322
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Compact, but stuffed with information

There has really never been another garden book as compact and informative as Michael Wright's handbook. Whenever a 'new' plant hits the market, I look it up in the handbook, and although the book was originally published in the U.K. in 1984, more often than not I'll find the exact cultivar I'm looking for. The plant identification, cultivation, and descriptions are all right on the mark. Any time I can find a copy of this book, I buy it to give to my gardening friends, and every one of them thinks it's a treasure.

Complete Handbook of Garden Plants

This book is the most complete I have ever read. It is out of print and I keep it checked out from the library system. I wish I knew how to get this book re-printed. I know there would be an interest by many gardeners who would gladly purchase this. As another reviewer wrote, you can carry it with you. Every plant that I have read about, or saw at a garden center, I have picked up this book and read about it and enjoy the beautiful drawings linked with each description. I love all of my garden books, but this one I would grab in a mad rush if my house caught fire. It is that valuable to me.

The most useful book in my reference library

This book was a gift in 1986 and it is by far the most useful and used in my reference library. It is illustrated and covers a scope of plants rarely found in one volume. It includes trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, annuals, etc. If you can aquire a copy of it, you won't be sorry. It is also small and easy to carry to garden shops and as a field guide.