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The Gardener's Guide to Cactus: The 100 Best Paddles, Barrels, Columns, and Globes
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About The Gardener's Guide To Cactus: The 100 Best
Product Description “Gardeners new and old will close this book with an arsenal of ideas on how to take their cactus cultivation to a new level.” —Terrain The Gardener’s Guide to Cactus reveals how easy, hardy, and rewarding cactus can be for home gardeners. Succulent plant expert Scott Calhoun picks 100 of the best cactus available and shows how they can make striking additions to your garden. Information includes advice on planting and care, tips for growing in containers, and details on identify and avoiding pests. Whether you want striking form, gorgeous flowers, or a low-maintenance plant for a spot that needs little or no supplementary water, you’ll find it in this friendly, informative, and eye-catching guide. From Booklist Calhoun lovingly showcases cactus, some generations old, with informative text and stunning photos. A wholly New World family of 2,500 species, cacti photosynthesize with stems and, unlike 90 percent of plants, do so at night, dramatically reducing water loss. Organized by morphology, the shape of the plants, Calhoun’s guide shows how cactus can easily be combined with other arid-adapted plants, indoors and out. He shares his passion for “the most sought-after landscape cactus in the world,” the golden barrel cactus, with its showy golden spines, and cactus with segmented pads and rods, including prickly pears and chollas, which are the most cold-hardy. Columnar varieties, the least cold-tolerant, include the iconic saguaro, America’s largest cactus, a symbol of the Southwest that can soar to 50 feet and branch to 8 feet across. Habitat, growth stats, cultivation, and design suggestions supplement detailed profiles, while back matter covers culinary uses, pest-control tips, and plant hardiness zones, for an outstanding volume that is both beautiful and useful. --Whitney Scott Review The Gardener's Guide to Cactus by Scott Calhoun offers a clear, helpful, well-presented text -- trust me, this is an art form all too often neglected in garden books -- along with reliable design suggestions. Dominique Browning, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2011 If the title of Scott Calhoun's new book from Timber Press doesn't grab you then maybe the subtitle The 100 Best Paddles, Barrels, Columns, and Globes will. One hundred, the perfect number. You are virtually assured to find something, but not be overwhelmed at the choices. --Danger Garden Blog, Feb. 10th, 2012 From the Back Cover At last: a book that shows readers just how easy, hardy, and rewarding cactus can be for everyone—not just specialists. Succulent plant expert Scott Calhoun picks 100 of the best cactus available and shows how they can make striking additions to your garden or serve as dazzling container specimens. Whether you want striking form, gorgeous flowers, or a low-maintenance plant for a spot that needs little or no supplementary water, you’ll find it in this friendly, informative, eye-catching guide. Detailed descriptions of the 100 best cactus for gardens Stunning photos Expert advice on planting and care How to show cactus Tips for growing cactus in containers Best tools and planting media How to identify and avoid pests Helpful lists of spineless, culinary, and scented cactus About the Author Scott Calhoun is an award-winning author and garden designer based in Tucson, Arizona, where he lives with his wife and daughter. In his design practice, he incorporates cactus into every residential space and sees them as the plant family of the future—especially in arid parts of the world. Calhoun is the author of six gardening books. His work has earned an American Horticultural Society Book Award and a Garden Writers Association Silver Book Award. He writes a monthly garden column for Sunset magazine and has written for most national gardening magazines. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Preface If you think of cactus solely as plants confined to rock-strewn deserts, you might be pleasant
