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Gardener's Guide to Tropical Plants

Cool Ways to Add Hot Colors, Bold Foliage, and Striking Textures

Gardener's Guide to Tropical Plants
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Author:

Nellie Neal

Format: Paperback, 240 Pages
Item: 194749
ISBN: 9781591865322
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Illustrations: 189 color photos & 6 color illustrations
Size: 7 x 10
DC: AE
List Price: $24.99 $18.74
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Not Yet Published - Available 07/31/2012
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Now gardeners can bring an exotic flair to their gardens by introducing the color, textures, and fabulous foliage of tropical plants. Not just for hot climates anymore, bromeliads, orchids, bananas, palms, birds of paradise, elephant ears, canna, and more can bring a touch of the tropics to any garden. Gardener’s can choose from more than 150 plants featured in this book, each chosen for the visual impact it adds to any landscape or container garden. Plants are organized by a range of clearly defined zones, making it easy for gardeners to find the plants that will succeed in their landscape. Author Nellie Neal explains how to best use tropical plants both indoors and out. To make this book a universally useful guide, it is organized to explain how to grow tropical plants in a wide range of clearly defined zones. Further, the book illustrates how to best use these plants in landscapes and containers, indoors and out, no matter where you live. It is a practical, user-friendly celebration of tropical plants.

Known as “The GardenMama” to her radio audiences, Nellie Neal (Jackson, MS) writes and speaks from a solid educational background coupled with a lifetime of gardening successes and failures. She learned to garden from her grandfather in Monroe, Louisiana, and spent summers gardening and crabbing with her great aunt in Gulfport,  Mississippi. She blogs weekly at her website, www.gardenmama.com, and twice monthly for Diggin’ It, the online gardening section of the Christian Science Monitor.

 

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Table of Contents
Welcome to Growing Tropical Plants
In Your Garden: Where and How Tropicals Grow
Controlling Pests and Diseases: Tips and Techniques
Propagation: The More the Merrier
Design and Garden Uses: Why We Love Tropicals
Container Gardening: Tropicals in Pots, Baskets, and Boards
Bringing Tropical Plants Indoors: Breathe Easier
Featured Tropicals
Herbaceous Tropicals
Woody Tropicals
Vining Tropicals
Plants for Special Sites
Plants for Special Features
Resources
Photography Credits
Maps
Index
Meet Nellie Neal
Gardening Notes

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