Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths: Warm-climate Plants for Cooler Areas

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Timber Press, 2003 - Gardening - 267 pages
Palms that grow in Canada? Bananas that overwinter in Michigan? How about southern crape myrtles that flower in Birmingham, England, instead of Birmingham, Alabama? Although the voice of authority — and nursery labels — might say, "You can't grow those plants here," author Dave Francko has a different message for gardeners: "Plants can't read the information on their tags." Laced with humorous anecdotes and based on years of first-hand observations and research, this book provides real-world information to help adventurous gardeners grow plants they never before dreamed possible. Nobody who reads this book will ever look at a plant label the same way again.

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Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths: Warm-Climate Plants for Cooler Areas
David A. Francko
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About the author (2003)

Hardy palm expert David Francko has recently been a featured guest on Martha Stewart Living TV, as well as NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow. Francko is chair of the Department of Botany at Miami University in Ohio and his academic specialty is aquatic plants. He is co-investigator on the unversity's Hardy Palms Project, and for many years he has experimented with warm-climate plants in his own gardens. Francko's findings have been published in scientific journals and presented at national and international conferences. As part of a network of adventurous gardeners living in cooler regions of the world, Francko refuses to accept the common wisdom that "Palms won't grow here.

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TitlePalms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths: Warm-climate Plants for Cooler Areas
AuthorDavid A. Francko
Editionillustrated
PublisherTimber Press, 2003
ISBN0881925756, 9780881925753
Length267 pages
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Gardening / Climatic / Temperate
Gardening / Ornamental Plants
Gardening / Techniques
  
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