Re: favorite shade garden book
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- Subject: Re: [SG] favorite shade garden book
- From: J* C*
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:10:53 -0400
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>One of my all-time favorite gardening books is Principles of Gardening, The
>Practice of the Gardener's Art by Hugh Johnson. (It's not just about shade,
>but let's not settle for blinders in this passion....) Hugh is a major wine
>critic and writer, a Brit. Because of his public wine reviewing perspective
>and writing focus, this book is written in an easily readable manner, yet
>it's not light-weight and is fascinating. It takes slants on the subject I
>haven't seen in other gardening books. It's is out of print(1996). I see a
>used "Practice of the Gardener's Art" listed for $17.50 at
>http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=sl&ac=sl&qi=0dmM,PTCTic57de6khDo8nG0dmU
>AFsDo:6:9
There is a new version, but I took a course on historical garden style
devt. for a landscape designer who much preferred the OOP version!
FWIW
>
>Diann
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
>> Hank Zumach
>> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 10:07 PM
>> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>> Subject: [SG] favorite shade garden book
>>
>>
>> I received a gift certificate for a book and would appreciate
>> hearing which are your favorite shade gardening reference books.
>> The ones that I already have are Schmid's 'The Genus Hosta',
>> Aden's 'The Hosta Book', and Schenk's 'The Complete Shade
>> Gardener'. Although not specifically related to shade, I also
>> have Rodale's 'Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials' and
>> Cresson's 'American Flower Garden'. At this point, I 'm not
>> interested in another hosta specific book and might want to get a
>> more general shade book. A specific book that I'm considering is
>> 'American Horticultural Society's A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden
>> Plants' but it is kind of pricey. If anyone has this book, can
>> you let me know what you think of it? All comments are welcomed.
>>
>> Hank Zumach
>> Better Gnomes & Gardens
>> Stoddard, WI
>> zone 4B
>>
