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Landscaping With Fruit: Strawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges, grape arbors, and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise. (A Homeowners Guide) |  | Author: Lee Reich
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 31612
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 9.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 1603420916
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.6
EAN: 9781603420914
ASIN: 1603420916
Publication Date: February 4, 2009
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Product Description
Fruit trees, shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful — well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape. Backyard fruit plants also tie in perfectly with the growing locavore movement. It's difficult to find food that's more local than one's own backyard!
"Luscious landscaping," as author Lee Reich calls it, takes fruit-bearing plants off the commercial farm and replants the prettiest and tastiest specimens in suburban and rural yards. Spring blossoms, summer and fall fruit, and the year-round presence of the plants themselves bring a special magic to the home landscape. Pillowy pink blossoms on peach branches or the bright orange fruit of persimmon trees perk up their surroundings with color and drama.
Beautiful plants, yes, but these landscaping additions also provide sweet, nutritious fruit. Homegrown, organic varieties bear almost no resemblance to commercially produced fruits,which are bred and selected to withstand shipping and refrigerated storage conditions. It's hard to believe that Alpine strawberries and those grown in California and shipped across the country are even related!
Fruitscaping is a complete, no-nonsense guide to growing temperate-zone fruit, with information on everything from planting and pruning to pest control and harvesting. Readers will find all the basics of landscaping with fruit — site analysis, climate assessment, understanding soil and sun, plant selection, and optimizing growing conditions. An encyclopedia of 38 plants includes information for each entry on hardiness, size, potential pests, special care and pruning, harvesting, and visual appeal.
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 Amazing resource! July 16, 2010
John
This is one of the most fantastic books I have thus far added to my permaculture library. Beautiful photos, stellar information, and buckets of inspiration! As a sustainably-minded land owning family just in the first stages of our permaculture/forest garden designing, this book is immensely helpful in selecting the fruit plants that will provide for us for years (and lifetimes!) to come! The beginning of the book is a lovely treatise on design, and the rest of the book offers a beautiful description of each plant, including the plant's USDA Cold Hardiness Zones and AHS Heat Zones, in addition to information regarding the general hardiness of the plants, what care (if any) they might require and whether or not this care is 'by personal preference' or 'necessary to the survival/thriving of the plant,' and what types of soil and conditions the plants can withstand. The flavors of the fruits are also described and rated - a helpful feature for those of us who have not sampled all of the varieties contained therein - in addition to the yield one might expect per plant. The design features of each fruit plant are discussed as well, including any striking design elements of a particular plant, such as bright fall foliage and flower color. Also are listed the different varieties of each fruit plant, some of which are adapted to wider or smaller climate ranges - very helpful for the harsh, high mountain region in which my family resides. I have nothing but praise to give for this book - I have already ordered several of his other books to add to my library!
 Beautiful book but no raspberries. June 30, 2010
JR (Saratoga, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This might not be fair but I was really interested in blackberries and raspberries naturalized in the landscape. Blackberries are covered, barely adequately. But, raspberries are not even mentioned except for a description below one photo of a black raspberry. No discussion of the suitability of raspberries at all, or lack thereof. Unfortunately, that was the info I was searching for and didn't find. Other than that, it is a nicely done volume. The coverage of other fruits is adequate but I would say the book concentrates more on the general landscape plan and the place of fruits and berries within it.
late book April 27, 2010
Anna D. Murillo (CHULA VISTA, CA, US)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love the book, but i had to wait 3 weeks to receive it :?
i bought 2 more books the same date and i received them within a week..
review by www.beachbrightsreviews.blogspot.com March 9, 2010
BeachBrights (TN)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3G6OHS7M9MA27 I hope that by doing a video review, I am able to give you better glimpse inside the book. I really enjoyed this book and it's great advice on site planning. This book offers some great design elements and I was excited to start implementing more fruit plants in my garden. Yes, I said this book made me excited. It is really a fun read and an excellent resource.
Enjoy-
 Lee Reich always has something good to say July 7, 2009
Alan J. Silberman
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Loved this book. Practical, clear, and the list of suppliers in the back is good an up to date.
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