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Tough-but-beautiful plant picks
There's a growing demand for dependably hardy plants that require less maintenance and less water, but look no less beautiful in the garden. Plant Select--the leading purveyor of plants designed to thrive in difficult climates--meets this need by promoting plants that allow gardeners everywhere to have stunning, environmentally-friendly gardens that use fewer resources. Pretty Tough Plants highlights 135 of Plant Select's top plant picks. Each profile features a color photograph and specific details about the plant's size, best features, and bloom season, along with cultural needs, landscape features, and design ideas. The plant list includes perennials and annuals, groundcovers, grasses, shrubs, and trees. A chart at the end of the book makes it easy to choose the right plants for specific conditions and needs.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Focusing on plants that thrive in generally inhospitable locales, this book elaborates on a fascinating trend in horticulture involving large swaths of landscape cultivated with intentionality and even, to some extent, design. The book profiles 135 plants used in one such effort in high plains and intermountain regions of the Rocky Mountains; the project is orchestrated by Plant Select, a nonprofit plant distributor. The plants included in the volume meet the criteria of thriving in a broad range of conditions, flourishing with less water, being resilient in challenging climates, being resistant to disease and insects, possessing long-lasting beauty, and being non-invasive. Highlighting all varieties of plant life, including perennial and annuals, groundcovers, petites, vines, shrubs, ornamental grass, and conifers, each category is aided by stunning color photos and includes practical information: lighting demands, growth habits, propagation tips, and so on. The book highlights plants specific to high-mountain regions, but the parameters for cultivation and the palette of plants can apply in any number of growing climates. This is a beautiful and helpful book that advances a lively trend in intentional and sustainable landscaping. Color photos. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
A not-for-profit collaboration of the Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado State University, and regional horticulture professionals, PlantSelect was created to choose the best from the intermountain region to the high plains and beyond, which means that these 135 plants are generally limited to hardiness zones 4-10. Creative gardeners which is to say, most gardeners can expand, however, that zone coverage by the plants they choose, where they site them, how they amend their soil, and other tweaks. PlantSelect's criteria include resilience in challenging climates, noninvasiveness, resistance to disease and insects, long-lasting beauty, and low-water tolerance. The selections are wide-ranging, including ground covers, perennials and annuals, ornamental grasses, vines, shrubs, and trees. Each entry features a full-color photo, plus info on size at maturity, timing and color of flowers, best features, culture, landscape use, and native range. All in all, a fine regional guide that could be gently bent to nationwide use.--Moores, Alan Copyright 2017 Booklist
Choice Review
Those looking for a guide to resilient plants for a broad range of climatic conditions can turn with confidence to this book for recommendations. In the 1980s, Plant Select, a cooperative venture between botanists and the horticultural industry in Colorado, began to bring gardeners beautiful plants that succeed under a range of conditions, survive with little water, represent unique features, are resistant to attack by pathogens and insects, and are noninvasive. Here, one can see the result of some of their work. Many selections in this volume originate from the Rocky Mountains and western states but will thrive elsewhere. There are over 100 plants listed according to stature and type. A high-quality color image of each plant shows form and habit, and a short summary provides such plant features as size and growth requirements and highlights the best or special characteristics. Longer descriptions outline the plant's requirements, use in the landscape, and native range and origins. Both scientific and common names are provided. A reference guide at the end of the work summarizes characteristics of the listed plants and their requirements. This attractive book will stand out as a reference for gardeners, both practiced and novice. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. --Donald H. Pfister, Harvard University