Product Details

• Published on: 2005-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Publisher
Great for novices and experienced gardeners!
The North Carolina Gardener's Guide contains 170 plant entries that are best suited and easiest to grow in the state. Before making his plant list, author Toby Bost questioned 300 volunteers who had recently completed the Master Gardener program. "If a hurricane destroyed your garden, which plants would you replant in your landscape?" The book is comprehensive, but not overwhelming and the format allows both novices and experienced gardeners to acquire the garden of their dreams without the trail and error that most people experience.

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for North Carolina gardeners
This book has been very helpful for me in choosing, planting and understanding how to take care of annuals, perennials, groundcovers, shrubs, trees, bulbs, vines and herbs that will grow well in North Carolina. The choices at a gardening center can be overwhelming, but Tony Bost's advice can help you focus on plantings that have a good chance to succeed in a N.C. garden. I especially like the great detail that goes into the exact way to plant your selection, and the maintenance of the plant, so that you know how often and with what to fertilize the plant, and how to water and prune it. Tony Bost has also included up to date information on new cultivars that are being developed and relies a lot on excellent research that is currently being done at the Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh.