Southern Gardener's Book of Lists: The Best Plants for All Your Needs, Wants, and Whims

by Lois Trigg Chaplin

Overview

The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists, a sourcebook and workbook in one, has all the answers. With more than 200 lists of plants grouped by their horticultural characteristics and uses in the garden, this is the one-of-a-kind guide to spending less time and money on your garden. Veteran gardener and best-selling author Lois Trigg Chaplin recommends hundreds of plants for hundreds of uses, noting the specific Southern regions they grow in and sharing helpful hints and insights. Other special features include the tips, suggestions, and anecdotes of gardeners, nurserymen, designers, and horticulturists from across the South.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878338443
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	04/28/1994
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	120,825
Product dimensions:	7.13(w) x 10.04(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Lois Trigg Chaplin is also the author of A Garden's Blessings, Refreshment for the Soul, and a contributor to four editions of Southern Living's Garden Annual. Formerly a garden editor at Southern Living for thirteen years, her articles now appear in many gardening and home periodicals. She lives and gardens in Birmingham, Alabama.

Editorial Reviews

Lois Trigg Chaplin compiles more than 200 lists of plants that fill everyday and special needs.

Raleigh News and Observer

An excellent reference for homeowners or gardeners planning a yard.

Augusta Chronicle

A book that no Southern Gardener should be without.
— Joanne Caglione

Fairhope Courier

LoisTrigg Chaplin takes the practical, informative art of list-making to gardeners with this book...the true genius of Chaplin's work is that she also includes lists that are uncommon to find anywhere else, but are nonetheless essential bits of information. From ferns to trees to groundcovers, this book has it all nicely broken down in practical lists for everyone.

New South Gardener

Chaplin's recommendations for trees, perennials, azaleas, roses, and other plants are aimed at gardeners who live in the country's southern regions, including those living the farthest south, who find it most difficult to gather dependable data.

Booklist

...a must book for newcomers to the South.

Gainesville Times

A book that no Southern Gardener should be without.

Fairhope Courier - Joanne Caglione

Provides a handy list of plants suitable for all types of gardening situations.

Fairhope Courier - Anne Clay

The author, a well-known gardening writer who served as gardening editor for Southern Living for 13 years, has compiled a useful and entertaining book of lists for Southern gardeners. It's helpful when catalogs group together plants that do well in sun or shade and code other horticultural characteristics, but Chaplin goes further, offering lists of annuals that withstand heavy rain, roses that provide fragrance, perennials suited to heavy clay soil, and, this reviewer's favorite, vines feared for their vigor. Noted experts have assisted in compiling the lists. Altogether, there are more than 200 lists in nine categories, with appropriateness for upper South, middle South, lower South, and coastal areas indicated. Recommended for public libraries in the South. (Index not seen.)-Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

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