- Hardcover: 360 pages
- Publisher: Timber Press; 1st Edition edition (15 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0881927821
- ISBN-13: 978-0881927825
- Product Dimensions: 26.6 x 18.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The sight of a wild landscape covered with heathers in full bloom is breathtaking, so it is little surprise that people have found ways of introducing these rewarding plants into their gardens. Here they excel, offering color in the drabbest months and a huge diversity of height, habit, and other valuable characteristics in return for modest cultural demands. This comprehensive and highly informative account encompasses the heaths and heathers of the closely related genera Calluna, Daboecia, and Erica, whose shared characteristics and similar cultural requirements make them broadly compatible in a variety of garden situations. These plants have enhanced people's lives for millennia and a full discussion of their naming, uses and other interactions with humans is explored in detail. A fascinating account of the unique ecological niche they occupy including their remarkable adaptation to make use of the nitrogen and phosphorus unavailable to most other plants provides a fitting context for discussion of their specific cultural needs. With more than 700 cultivated varieties of Calluna alone, selecting the right heather for the right place can be daunting. The detailed selection of cultivated hardy heathers conveniently provides gardeners with the best garden performers while further lists allow them to search for heathers for specific qualities, such as heat tolerance, ground cover, or early summer blooming. Design options for displaying heathers at their best in the garden are provided along with advice on spacing, pruning, propagation, pests, and diseases. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated work, classic wild-collected cultivars are described alongside the latest introductions to produce an invaluable reference that will inspire heather enthusiasts and gardeners for generations to come.
About the Author
David Small is a leading authority on heathers. With his wife, Anne, David operated the specialist nursery Denbeigh Heathers for more than 25 years and has been growing heathers for half a century. The author of numerous magazine articles and co-author of several important heather reference books, he has been advising commercial growers and gardeners alike for more than three decades. David served for many years as chairman of The Heather Society in the UK and is now its honorary president. A biologist by training, Ella May T. Wulff has been an avid gardener since she was a young child and has been active in heather societies since the 1980s. She served as president of the North American Heather Society from 2001 to 2004 and is currently editorial associate for its quarterly. Ella May writes articles about heathers and lectures on a range of horticultural subjects. She has created her own heather garden on a hillside west of Corvallis, Oregon.
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Format:Hardcover
I ordered this book for my husband who is very keen on conifers and heathers as they are very low maintenance .At present they are out of fashion in the gardening world but for all year round colour they are perfect.We needed to replace the orignal heathers because of an invasion by a particularly pernicious plant so my husband decided to do some research before starting again.Although at first taken aback by the fact it is American he soon realised how well researched and thorough it is and completely relevant to the U.K. He was able to cross check all the new plants ordered(40 in total) against the write ups in the book and followed the detailed planting instructions to ensure success as heather plants can often be lost if not well soaked beforehand and after planting.
This book is not cheap but is great value and beautifully presented. We would recommend it to anyone looking for a carefree,colourful garden.
This book is not cheap but is great value and beautifully presented. We would recommend it to anyone looking for a carefree,colourful garden.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful Reference Work
14 Jun 2009
Format:Hardcover
After seeing this book offered at New England's largest heather nursery, I requested it from my library's network (just one copy of this new title was available in eastern Mass. at the time). My initial "thumb turning" suggested that, with the authors residing in the UK and California, this might not be for me either (USDA Zone 5B - heather's cultural frontier because we don't have reliable, winter-long snow cover) but I decided to start it. This book is very well done and exhaustively researched by two experts in the field. I thought Chapter 2's (Care & Cultivation / Soil) discussion of Mycorrhizae alone was worth the book's asking price. Much of this book's information is useful in areas well beyond heathers and heath. I'm not sure what Evonne's expectations were but this gardener's expectations were more than met in full and I subsequently purchased it from Amazon. This is one very fine gardening reference!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great information, no color photos in E-book
15 Dec 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I knew before buying the book that I might be pushing zones to try to add heathers to my garden (zone 4), but I had seen a zone 5 heather in a gardening magazine, so figured it was worth finding out more. The photos on the website sample are luscious--sadly, the e-book version only had black-and-white photos. However, the wealth of information about growing heathers and the history and background of heathers (and heath) is worthwhile, even without the photos--but for only $3 more (or perhaps even less than the price of the e-book), buy the hard copy so you can get the color photos. Bonus--I was excited to find out that the sandy and poor soil in my garden, while ill-suited to growing grass, might be the ideal environment to grow heather. After the disappointment of discovering that the e-book did not have color photos, I took advantage of Amazon's 7-day return policy for e-books, but I will definitely be buying this in hard-cover. You may enjoy this book if you are interested in plants that will be low-maintenance, or are trying to shift to gardening with shrubs, or are a fan of the sweeping/romantic Piet Oudolf-style designs...
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Gardening with Hardy Heathers
28 Aug 2009
Format:Hardcover
Item received on time and as described. I was not aware until I received the book that its major focus (and printing) is England. How many varieties are here in states I am not sure.
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