Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The completely new and totally revised Fourth Edition of Southern Plants expands in every area of the South, and with almost every new and old plant, there is new information. This final edition covers all the plants that could be practically included with an emphSouthern Plants concludes almost forty years of work studying, classifying, and treating each plant and presenting the best available information for its readers. Here, Neil Odenwald and James Turner once again improve on the vast range of plants that are so important to the Southern landscape. This latest edition keeps with a traditional emphasis on the practical use of plants to solve and prevent landscape design problems. Over 1,000 plants are noted in classes from trees to shrubs, vines to perennials, wildflowers to grasses, rushes to water plants, and ground covers to bulbs. There are many special sections on such things as gingers, palms, bamboos, and ferns.