Botanica's 100 Best Flowering Shrubs for Your Garden

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Summary: Ideal for any gardening or landscaper reference shelf
Review: Flowering shrubs can bring color, variety, and beauty to any garden, large of small, complex or simple. Profusely enhanced with color photography, Botanica's 100 Best Flowering Shrubs For Your Garden describes one hundred of the most popular flowering shrubs readily available to today's gardener, along with information on their botanical and common names, preparation, planing, hardiness zones, and care. An ideal addition to any gardening or landscaper reference shelf, Botanica's 100 Best Flowering Shrubs For Your Garden is further buttressed with a informative introduction, zone maps, and a useful index.

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Summary: Lacking clear, precise presentation and missing some shrubs!
Review: I bought this book to get ideas on shrubs, and it has a lot of choices, but it lacks the best choices for evergreens like Lorapetalum & Nandina (Heavenly Bamboo). A southern shrub planting must have plants like these that provide evergreen fullness and color! More importantly it lacks clarity --- it just rambles on from one page to the next with no page breaks from one shrub to the next, and the main info you need to know about a shrub is either hard to find or non-existant. I recommend buying Taylor's 50 Best Shrubs for anyone, beginner or pro, and forget this one.

Rating:
Summary: Lacking clear, precise presentation and missing some shrubs!
Review: I bought this book to get ideas on shrubs, and it has a lot of choices, but it lacks the best choices for evergreens like Lorapetalum & Nandina (Heavenly Bamboo). A southern shrub planting must have plants like these that provide evergreen fullness and color! More importantly it lacks clarity --- it just rambles on from one page to the next with no page breaks from one shrub to the next, and the main info you need to know about a shrub is either hard to find or non-existant. I recommend buying Taylor's 50 Best Shrubs for anyone, beginner or pro, and forget this one.