Author: Rick Darke
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: pocket, press, guides, timber, grasses, guide, ornamental
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0881926531
ISBN-13: 9780881926538

Ornamental grasses surpass all other garden plants in their luminous qualities. Their colors are softly sophisticated, varied, and subtle. They include a striking array of textures, forms, sizes, and flowering times and have appeal in the garden throughout the year. Grasses’ ethereal quality, sound, and movement make them ideal choices for gardeners and landscape designers alike. The Timber Press Pocket Guide to Ornamental Grasses provides an accessible and comprehensive reference to the wide range of grasses available to the gardener. Building on Darke’s best-selling Color Encyclopedi

Authors:Lydiane Kyte, John Kleyn,
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: micropropagation, introduction, tubes, test, plants
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0881923613
ISBN-13: 9780881923612

Acclaimed since its first appearance as the most practical guide to plant tissue culture and widely adopted as a textbook, this standard work is now even better. This expanded edition introduces new developments in biotechnology, such as genetic engineering and cell culture. It provides detailed recipes for propagating plants from more than 30 families. It explains clearly how to set up a propagating laboratory, from a hobbyist’s kitchen to an elaborate commercial enterprise.

Author: Allan M. Armitage
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: encyclopedia, color, annuals, garden, armitage
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0881926175
ISBN-13: 9780881926170

Bold and dramatic, annuals have been experiencing a resurgence, and garden centers and catalogs offer them in bewildering variety, from traditional bedding plants to new, specialty introductions. In Armitage’s Garden Annuals, author Allan M. Armitage selects proven specimens from nearly 200 genera of plants and evaluates their gardenworthiness and sheer beauty. With humor, authority, and a wealth of practical experience, Armitage offers invaluable insights into those plants that truly earn their keep --- and a few that do not! He has illustrated them with more than 1300 stunning color ph

Author: George H. Schenk
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: liverworts, miniatures, lichens, including, gardening, moss
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0881923702
ISBN-13: 9780881923704

This handsome guide, written by an ever-practical expert on shade gardening, "tells almost as much about the mechanics of moss gardening as the Kama Sutra does about dancing."

Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: succulents, designing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 088192816X
ISBN-13: 9780881928167

Succulent plants offer dazzling possibilities for garden design and require only minimal maintenance to remain lush and alluring year round. Featuring the work of more than 50 professional garden designers and creative homeowners, this complete design compendium is as practical as it is inspirational. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, it gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 90 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Beginners and experienced designers, landscapers, an

Authors:Charles O. Baker, Margaret L. Baker,
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: odontoglossum, alliance, oncidium, culture, species, orchid
Number of Pages: 992
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0881927759
ISBN-13: 9780881927757

The immense Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance contains some of the most popular orchids grown, including members of the genera Ada, Brassia, Cyrtochilum, Odontoglossum, Oncidium, Psychopsis, Rodriguezia, Rossioglossum, and Trichopilia. Finding reliable cultural information for more than just a handful of the most commonly available species, however, can be a real challenge. In this meticulously researched volume, Margaret and Charles Baker have assembled a staggering amount of data about these plants in an accessible format. By combining weather records and habitat reports with information from

Author: Rosemary Alexander
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: maintenance, garden, essential
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 088192783X
ISBN-13: 9780881927832

The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook takes over where expert gardener Rosemary Alexander’s first book, The Essential Garden Design Workbook, leaves off. With a wealth of step-by-step guidance, this book enables gardeners of all levels to confidently tackle wide-ranging maintenance tasks and develop new skills to sustain the success of their gardens.