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Armitage's Garden Perennials: A Color Encyclopedia | 
| Author: Allan M. Armitage
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 106119
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 324
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0881924350
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.93203
EAN: 9780881924350
ASIN: 0881924350
Publication Date: March 1, 2000
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Product Description
Armitage's Garden Perennials is the most comprehensive single-volume photographic resource on perennial plants. It describes and illustrates the choice of perennials in 136 genera from Acanthus to Zauschneria. The book's greatest strengths are the quality of its more than 1400 photographs, all taken by the author, and the exhaustive information on the most interesting, important, or overlooked perennial plants. Based on his own extensive experience---he has gardened in climates as dissimilar as Quebec and Georgia and studied plants on three continents---Armitage makes a discerning selection of the best cultivars, from classics to cutting-edge recent introductions. The text is concise and delightful, like a private tutorial with a master teacher. The reader will have no doubt about which plants the author most admires ("What else do you know that is big, bold, and beautiful and wants to be planted in a bog?") and which fall short ("Variegated coral bells like 'Snowstorm' ought to be trashed. I am constantly told how wonderful they are. I don't listen. To each his own.") The encyclopedia is rounded out by more than a dozen extensive lists of plants suitable for particular situations or uses, including plants for wet places, for drought tolerance, and for fragrance or color. It is a noteworthy addition to Timber Press's acclaimed series of pictorial encyclopedias that includes Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs and Rick Darke's Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses.
Book Description
Similar in format to previous full-color references from Timber Press such as Dirr's Hardy Trees & Shrubs & Conifers, this will be the most comprehensive photo resource available for ever-popular perennials.
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 Armitage Garden Perennials July 29, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted a book that had a section of height and description of the flowers and how long the blooming season is and whether it did well in sun or shade. I would like to have been able to just open to the flower and find that information all in one place, but I have to read through the entire information on that particular plant to find all of this, so the book is not as useful to me as I thought it was going to be. It takes up too much of my time to find out what I want to know. I would like a better description of the books so I know more if it is what I want before I buy it.
Armitage's Garden Perennials: A Color Encyclopedia January 9, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good pictures and good information. Useful as a book to show clients a picture of plants in a plan. Could use a consistent, easy to find section on the plant requirements. As a reference for designing this would help in finding appropriate plants for the project at hand.
 Armitage's Garden Perennials September 27, 2005
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a nice book but not what I thought it was going to be. I am taking an online course for Perennials and this book was suggested as a suppliment to the textbook. It is a nice picture book that you can use to identify a flower.
 Another Useful Armitage Book August 12, 2005
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Just received Armitage's Garden Perennials. It has as many pictures as the Annuals, LOTS more text.
I've spent many hours with the Annuals and I can say that had I had this book years ago I would have saved myself money and grief. It's amazing how many plants are not suited for Philly summers and are sold here nonetheless. I have thought for years I must have a genetic flaw, some disturbing lack that prevents me from growing decent dahlias. Armitage has assured me that it is not me, it is dahlias. That alone is worth the price of the book to me.
So many people are discouraged and give up gardening entirely because they think they have black thumbs when really the problem is the sale of plant material unsuited their area.
I work part time at an upscale nursery. Perrenials cost $15 and UP, annuals $5.00 for a 4" pot. A gardener at any level cannot afford to be without these books.
Plus there are so many pretty pictures!
Armitage's Garden Perennials. A Color Encyclopedia June 3, 2003
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
Very disappointed. For the price I thought it would be comprehensive, but too many perennials in common usage are not included. Also, no visual distinction in writeups between description and how-to-grow, so you have to do a lot of reading to zero in on the information you want. What I like about it is that the author provides opinions as well as descriptions, the photos are very good, and the information helps you choose among perennials and among their varieties.
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