Architectural Plants

Books and plants. Plants and books. Books about plants, and gardens and all things horticultural. I love books--real books that I hold in my hand. While I'd love to have a Kindle, it wouldn't replace the feeling of paging through a really good garden book. Now I'd love a Kindle for everything else I read.

This is my first post on Garden Books of Note. What I mean by that is I intend to list my garden books that I go back to time and again. Books that I typically learn something, or see something of value each time I open it.

These are not book reviews but rather postings about books I like and a few sentences of what makes me go back to them.

Christine Shaw's, Architectural Plants, is a book that has lots of solid info, good photography and a great layout that is conducive to reading a section (Palms, Ferns, Grasses, Bamboos, Climbers, Trees, Other leafy exotics, Spiky & Succulent plants), or opening to a random page.

I loved this bit from the chapter, Making the right decisions.

Unless you are especially stubborn, there is little point buying plants that have only a slim chance of surviving in your particular plot."

I surely place myself under the column of "especially stubborn." Or just a bit slow to learn.