Best Trees for Your Garden - Brief Article - Book Review

Science News, Nov 1, 2003

ALLEN PATERSON

While most people focus on low-growing shrubs, ground covers, and flowers, Paterson invites everyone to look up and appreciate the value of thoughtfully placed trees within a landscape. Focusing on how trees affect the growth of plants around them, Paterson begins with an introduction to how trees function. This section includes basic information, such as the effect of large leaves versus small ones on surrounding plants. The bulk of the book is a guide to selecting trees for a landscape. A lengthy encyclopedia features different varieties. Details include height, spread, speed of growth, leaf shape, and flower characteristics. Paterson targets this guide to amateur gardeners and professional landscapers and includes data appropriate for both audiences. Firefly, 2003, 208 p., color photos, flexibind, $24.95.

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