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Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifers
Growing Conifers is a beautifully photographed, comprehensive gardening guide for selecting and cultivating conifers. Coverage includes:
Conifer taxonomy, classification, and geographic distribution
Selecting conifers for size, shape, color, and texture
Best practices for placement and planting of trees, shrubs, and groundcovers in urban and rural gardens
Growing needs and low-input maintenance
Building healthy soil, minimizing water stress, and integrated pest management
Benefits of conifers including habitat, water and air quality, carbon sequestration, aesthetics, and food.
Conifers are often overlooked in gardening and landscaping in favor of deciduous trees and shrubs. Yet conifers come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors and offer tremendous aesthetic and ecological benefits for any garden.
Growing Conifers is an essential, comprehensive resource for gardeners and landscape professionals looking to develop beautiful, sustainable landscapes.
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New Society Publishers is an activist, solutions-oriented publisher focused on publishing books to build a more just and sustainable future. They pride themselves on holding the highest environmental standards of any publisher in North America. In 2002, they committed to printing all their books (including their full color books) on uncoated 100% post-consumer recycled paper, processed chlorine-free, with low-VOC vegetable-based inks. In doing so, the Growing Conifers' print run alone saved 66 fully grown trees, 5300 gallons of water, and 28,000 lbs of greenhouse gases. When you buy New Society Publishers' books, you are part of the solution!
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Conifer Basics
Chapter 2: Conifer Families
Chapter 3: Evaluating your Garden
Chapter 4: Designing with Conifers
Chapter 5: Selecting Conifers
Chapter 6: Planting Conifers
Chapter 7: Propagating Conifers
Chapter 8: Sustainably Caring for Conifers
Concluding Remarks
Appendix
Bibliography and Resources
Index
About the Authors
A Note About the Publisher
