The Native Plant Primer: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers for Natural Gardens

Sweet trumpet honeysuckle and silverbells amid the rolling hills of rural Georgia; desert marigolds and creosote bushes against the striking mountains of Santa Fe; a brilliant blanket of blue lupines and red Indian paintbrush under the wide Texas sky; native plants growing in their natural habitats are both breathtaking and ecologically sound. In The Native Plant Primer, gardening expert Carole Ottesen shows how each region of the country is home to an extraordinary variety of beautiful native plants and provides you with the advice and the know-how to use them to achieve stunning effects in your own garden. Native plants are environmentally friendly and can actually make gardening easier-because they flourish in their local habitats, they require less care, water, fertilizer, and pesticides.… (more)