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| Author: Richard L. Bitner
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 63843
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0881928305
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.935
EAN: 9780881928303
ASIN: 0881928305
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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 At last, an excellent guide to choosing conifers! July 19, 2007
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
If your idea of a conifer is one of those green blobs overgrowing a door or a window, you need to buy this book. It is an excellent guide to the great range of conifers available to gardeners, and it shows you what they would look like in your garden. Well organized and easy to read, it tells gardeners which conifers would be best suited to particular situations. And it offers information on many dwarf alternatives that are available to the increasing number of gardeners with small yards. If you have been intimidated by conifers in the past, you will be empowered after reading this book.
Great Textbook and Home Garden Resource July 12, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Dr. Bitner's love of conifers is apparent in this wonderfully illustrated encyclopedia. His descriptions of the genera, species and cultivars allows the gardener the opportunity to make the right selections for the right spot in the garden.
This is definitely a must have for the novice and professional as a great resource.
Kudos to Dr. Bitner!!
Conifers for Gardens June 7, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a home gardener, I found this book extremely helpful. The photographs are beautifully composed, and there is a wealth of information on how the wood from various conifers is used. The comments on how wild critters use the trees are also most interesting. An excellent reference book to keep on my bookshelf.
Best Conifer Book for American Gardens June 6, 2007
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
This is the first comprehensive book on American conifers to appear in twenty years. The two volume Van Huey Smith book is almost that old (reprinted with later dates), has minimal text and the photographs are poor. The Bloom book on gardening with conifers is attractive, more recent, has beautiful pictures, but British and, therefore, limited in scope.
This one offers well-organized, thorough info on 1370 species and 1,550 good photographs for choosing garden-worthy selections. It handles ornamental attributes, culture, pests and diseases, value to wildlife (including attractiveness to "hoofed browsers") traditional uses of the wood, and best dwarf cultivars for bonsai, particularly useful to those of us who are downsizing or just want to grow conifers in containers on a small patio or deck.
Ornamental features are illustrated (i.e. most genera have good photos of typical foliage, bark, cones, etc.) along with brief descriptions of available cultivars, their habit, growth rate, distinguishing features, etc., many trees shown in garden settings. Most were photographed in arboreta and public gardens from the NE, mid-W to the NW, Canada, and throughout Germany.
In the appendix are lists of recommendations for specific conditions, a discussion of the qualities one should expect in selecting a holiday tree, lists of specialty conifer nurseries, and places to view conifers in the US, Canada, Britain, and Germany (with website listings.)
The book reads like a series of well-prepared lectures by a knowledgeable instructor. I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone considering selecting appropriate conifers for gardens, either as a professional landscape architect, garden designer or home gardener.
 midrange March 21, 2007
9 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is a midrange book in terms of technicality. It's for someone who wants a little more than a basic intro to conifers, but not a technical book in terms of botany and not an extremely extensive encyclopedia. Photos are occasionally lacking, to my taste, but it's still a very useful book to have on the shelf, more useful than many others. I'm enjoying it.
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