Vancouver Sun's Best Plant Picks: Your Month-By-Month Guide for a West Coast Garden

By Steve Whysall

Book Overview

A resource guide for keeping a garden in bloom year-round. A compilation of expert gardener Steve Whysall s best columns from the past 15 years, Vancouver Sun s Best Plant Picks will keep a garden flowering throughout the year. In easy-to-follow sections, Whysall shares his wealth of horticultural knowledge on everything from describing a plant s distinctive features to creating the best conditions for making a garden thrive. Vancouver Sun s Plant Picks not only presents gardening options for every season, but also provides a comprehensive guide for gardeners who want to learn more about their plants. The book offers a wealth of practical information alongside fascinating trivia. Vancouver Sun s Plant Picks is focused on plants suitable for coastal gardens in the Pacific Northwest. It features both common and unique flowering garden plants for every month of the year, including: Winter jasmine (February) Camas lily (April) Silk tree (July) Camellia sasanqua Midnight Lover (November) . Written in a lively style by an expert and popular author, Vancouver Sun s Plant Picks will keep a garden flowering, rain or shine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552859274
• ISBN13: 9781552859278
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Whitecap Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.