Growing Conifers: The Complete Illustrated Gardening and Landscaping Guide

Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifers. "Growing Conifers" is a comprehensive gardening guide for selecting and cultivating conifers, covering taxonomy, classification, placement, planting, growing needs, and maintenance. It also highlights the benefits of conifers for habitat, water and air quality, carbon sequestration, aesthetics, and food.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2021
Publisher: New Society Publishers

Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifers!

Growing Conifers is a beautifully photographed, comprehensive gardening guide for selecting and cultivating conifers. Coverage includes:

Conifer taxonomy, classification, and geographic distribution

Selecting conifers for size, shape, color, and texture

Best practices for placement and planting of trees, shrubs, and groundcovers in urban and rural gardens

Growing needs and low-input maintenance

Building healthy soil, minimizing water stress, and integrated pest management

Benefits of conifers including habitat, water and air quality, carbon sequestration, aesthetics, and food.

Conifers are often overlooked in gardening and landscaping in favor of deciduous trees and shrubs. Yet conifers come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors and offer tremendous aesthetic and ecological benefits for any garden.

Growing Conifers is an essential, comprehensive resource for gardeners and landscape professionals looking to develop beautiful, sustainable landscapes.

New Society Publishers is an activist, solutions-oriented publisher focused on publishing books to build a more just and sustainable future. They pride themselves on holding the highest environmental standards of any publisher in North America. In 2002, they committed to printing all their books (including their full color books) on uncoated 100% post-consumer recycled paper, processed chlorine-free, with low-VOC vegetable-based inks. In doing so, the Growing Conifers print run alone saved 66 fully grown trees, 5,300 gallons of water, and 28,000 lbs of greenhouse gases. When you buy New Society Publishers books, you are part of the solution!

Weight: 636g
Dimension: 204 x 253 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780865719569