Coleus: Rainbow Foliage for Containers and Gardens - Rilegato

Rogers, Ray

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0881928658 ISBN 13: 9780881928655

Casa editrice: Timber Pr, 2008

Riassunto

An encyclopedic reference guide to more than 225 varieties of coleus features an array of these colorful foliage plants for both landscape design and container gardening, offering detailed descriptions of each variety, practical plant selection and garden design suggestions, tips on care and maintenance, and more.

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L'autore:

Lifelong gardener Ray Rogers is a garden editor and writer, working on more than 40 garden titles. He has written for The American Gardener magazine, Green Scene, and American Cottage Gardening and is coauthor of The Philadelphia Flower Show: Celebrating 175 Years. Ray has appeared on a variety of radio and TV programs, including Martha Stewart Living, and has taught in the George Washington University Horticulture Program. Currently a consultant for a specialty nursery, he continues to pursue his horticultural interests as a home gardener, as an amateur hybridizer of Hippeastrum (amaryllis), and as an award-winning horticultural exhibitor. He lives in North Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Coleus are no longer your grandmother's parlor plants. Favorites during the Victorian period, they have made a dramatic comeback. It's easy to see why: no other plant offers such a dazzling variety of leaf colors, shapes, and patterns, and no other plant is so easy to grow and propagate. Given a modicum of care, coleus will flourish from spring until frost. Although older varieties performed best in shady situations, newer ones have been selected for sun tolerance, making it possible to grow coleus in every part of the garden. With their sumptuous colors and tough constitution, coleus are ideal both as attention-getting focal points and as complements to other foliage or flowering plants. As happy in a container as in open ground, they are the ultimate in versatility, their uses as unlimited as your imagination.

Whether you're a weekend gardener in search of easy, reliable color, or an enthusiast who wants to collect every colues available, this exciting and comprehensive resource will give you exactly what you're looking for—and more. Expert plantsman Ray Rogers offers equal parts inspiration and practical advice, with history, plant characteristics, problem solving, propagation, and designing with coleus in both containers and in the garden, all brought to life by Richard Hartlage's masterful photographs. An encyclopedia covers more than 225 varieties.

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• Editore: Timber Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0881928658
• ISBN 13: 9780881928655
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 227