Synopses & Reviews
Illustrated with more than 110 striking color photographs and packed with advice on every aspect of rhododendron growing, from soil preparation and landscape design to advanced propagating and hybridizing techniques, this is the most useful book on these spectacular flowering shrubs. Reiley has fully updated his practical, hands-on approach with more of the detailed information that gardeners need to choose and grow these luxuriant, beautifully blossoming plants.
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"This work is a good additon to gardening collections."
—January Adams, American Reference Books Annual, 2005 American Reference Books Annual
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"This work is a good additon to gardening collections."
—January Adams, American Reference Books Annual, 2005 American Reference Books Annual
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"I am enthusiastic about this book; it covers a range of topics not collected together elsewhere and all rhodoholics should have a copy."
—M. J. Harvey, Victoria Rhododendron Society Newsletter, March 2005 Victoria Rhododendron Society
About the Author
H. Edward Reiley, a retired educator with a B.S. in horticulture, has been an active member of the American Rhododendron Society since 1969 and has served as ARS president. He operates a small nursery specializing in field-grown rhododendrons and azaleas and has a private four-acre garden, where he is evaluating new cultivars among thousands of plants.