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Title: Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses: Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-Tails, and Selected Bamboos by Rick Darke ISBN: 0-88192-464-4 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Fantastic
Comment: This is such a wonderful informational book... AND ... a gorgeous coffee table book. It is terrific from beginning to end! If you like or are interested in, or even thinking about Ornamental Grasses ... then THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU! I can't imagine anyone who has an interest in Ornamental Grasses NOT LOVING THIS BOOK, and would be delighted they purchased it. My only concern is that it is going to look dog-earred from my reading it over and over and over again ... which frankly takes away from its beauty on our coffee table.
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy 2 copies...
Comment: This book is structured, written, photographed and edited with parallel purpose and effect: communication of the author's respect and regard for the book's subject and for its readers. Mr. Darke sets out to inform and does so with enconomy but in full course; when he instructs, he teaches the novice and gives pause to the critic; when he photographs he shows his passion and inspires with the nature and wonder of his subjects. The book is encyclopedic, yet its prose is always to the point with the agreeable dryness of a good, well-bodied wine. Credible, trustworthy, enlightening. This is the best gardening book I have ever read. Negatives? Only one: Mr. Darke's standards are unimpeachable; those of the book's typographer and designer, however, are not.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent information, awesome photographs
Comment: Excellent and complete information about ornamental grasses. A great book.
Thirty pages on the botany, anatomy, and classification of grasses. Twenty pages on native habitat, thirty pages on designing with grasses, and twenty pages of growing and propagating grasses. 170 page encyclopedia listing 400+ species / varieties of grasses. Each species is described in a paragraph or two of text along side a clear photograph of the plant. In the back of the book, you find a 2 page glossary, 5 page bibliography, 2 page grass nursery listing, USDA and European hardiness maps, and a complete index of all grasses by common name. Very complete book.
As a bonus, the book is also filled with awesome photography.
If you garden with ornamental grasses, this book is a must buy. Excellent information, well worth the money!
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses : How to Grow and Use Over 250 Beautiful and Versatile Plants by John Greenlee, Derek Fell ISBN: 0875961002 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design by Nancy J. Ondra, Saxon Holt ISBN: 158017423X Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Landscaping With Ornamental Grasses by Fiona Gilsenan, Sunset Publishing ISBN: 0376035633 Publisher: Sunset Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest by Rick Darke ISBN: 0881925454 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia by Michael A. Dirr ISBN: 0881924040 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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