Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifers
Growing Conifers is a beautifully photographed, comprehensive gardening guide for selecting and cultivating conifers. Coverage includes:
- Conifer taxonomy, classification, and geographic distribution
- Selecting conifers for size, shape, color, and texture
- Best practices for placement and planting of trees, shrubs, and groundcovers in urban and rural gardens
- Growing needs and low-input maintenance
- Building healthy soil, minimizing water stress, and integrated pest management
- Benefits of conifers including habitat, water and air quality, carbon sequestration, aesthetics, and food.
Conifers are often overlooked in gardening and landscaping in favor of deciduous trees and shrubs. Yet conifers come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors and offer tremendous aesthetic and ecological benefits for any garden.
Growing Conifers is an essential, comprehensive resource for gardeners and landscape professionals looking to develop beautiful, sustainable landscapes.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2021.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 635.9/35
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781550927498
- LCCN
- SB428
- LCCN Item number
- A43 2021eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vii, 215 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241894 (OCoLC)1226424259 (CaOOCEL)480669
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Title Page 1
- Praise for Growing Conifers 2
- Title Page 4
- Rights Page 5
- Contents 6
- Dedication 7
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 10
- Chapter 1: Conifer Basics 26
- Chapter 2: Conifer Families 44
- Chapter 3: Evaluating your Garden 72
- Chapter 4: Designing with Conifers 82
- Chapter 5: Selecting Conifers 114
- Chapter 6: Planting Conifers 152
- Chapter 7: Propagating Conifers 166
- Chapter 8: Sustainably Caring for Conifers 180
- Concluding Remarks 206
- Appendix 208
- Bibliography and Resources 214
- Index 216
- About the Authors 224
- A Note About the Publisher 225
- A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading 226
