Re: Favorite Gardening Books
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Favorite Gardening Books
- From: "* C* <r*@neptune.on.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:56:32 -0400
Herbaceous Perennial Plants by Allan M. Armitage. The first edition had
600+ pages, the 2nd edition (hideously expensive) is I think somewhere
around 1000. Not a lot of pretty pictures but a good useful guide to
growing the plants themselves. Excellent identification key based on such
items as leaf shape and arrangement on the stalk-a better way to do it than
flower pictures anyway. Armitage is particularly useful because he has
lived and gardened in Montreal, East Lansing ,Michigan and Athens, Georgia,
where he was a professor in the Dept. Horticulture at U of Georgia. He will
often tell you that particular species won't work well in warm
climates-which I bet you could use in North Carolina. He will tell you if
seed needs special conditions to germinate-for example Globeflower should be
sown almost immediately, but even then germination will only be about 40%.
Packaged seed will require over a year to germinate and then perhaps only 5%
will do so. Something you don't usually see in the seed catalogues.
Bob Campbell
USDA 4..
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