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Armitage's Garden Annuals: A Color Encyclopedia | 
 enlarge | Author: Allan M. Armitage
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 317749
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.4 x 1
ISBN: 0881926175
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.931203
EAN: 9780881926170
ASIN: 0881926175
Publication Date: February 1, 2004
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Product Description
Horticulturists, students, and dedicated home gardeners will be familiar with Armitage's authority on this topic from his more technical Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials. That volume was singled out as a winner of the Choice Academic Book Award, the American Horticultural Society Book Award, and the Garden Writers of America Golden Globe Award. While this new offering is a perfect pictorial companion to the Manual, it also stands alone with its personal commentary and inspiring advice on the most interesting, important, or overlooked plants. Armitage selects proven specimens from nearly 200 genera of plants and evaluates their garden-worthiness and sheer beauty. With humor, authority, and a wealth of practical experience, Armitage offers invaluable insights into those plants that truly earn their keep---and a few that do not! He has illustrated the entries with more than 1300 stunning color photos, rounded out by more than two dozen helpful lists of plants suitable for particular situations or uses, including plants for cool-summer areas, plants for dry situations, edible plants, container plants, shade plants, vines, and flowers for cutting.
Book Description
Armitage selects proven specimens from nearly 200 genera of plants and evaluates their garden-worthiness and sheer beauty. With humor, authority, and a wealth of practical experience, Armitage offers invaluable insights into those plants that truly earn their keep. He has illustrated the entries with more than 1300 stunning color photos, rounded out by more than two dozen lists of plants suitable for particular situations.
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Another excellent book by Allan Armitage and Timber Press March 3, 2004
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Mr. Armitage is following the format utilized by his earlier book "Armitage's Garden Perennials" and Michael Dirr's "Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs", providing frank information of common and obscure annuals. Comments such as "Bananas...If you are reading this and are not thinking, 'this guy is nuts!', then you are an open-minded gardener, and we can drink beer together." are what makes this a good book. But the pictures are outstanding. If this book had no words other than the description below the picture, it would be an outstanding book. I now have all the reference I need along with "Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials". I just need a bigger bookshelf....
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