Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants: How to Grow Dramatic Flowers for Your Patio, Sunroom, Windowsill, and Outdoor Spaces

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Summary: Wonderfully enhanced with full-color photography
Review: Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants by expert horticulturalist and lecturer Byron Martin and his wife Laurelynn share 109-year-old family secrets on how to grow exotic flowers. Third-generation owners of Logee's, a firm that has been involved with growing and selling more than a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use since 1892, the information and advice offered are authoritative, dependable, practical, and totally "reader friendly" for gardeners and horticulturalists of all backgrounds and degrees of experience. Featured are eighty of the most popular genera and detailed information on how to grow, care for, prune, and winter over these beautiful, fragrant plants. The informed and informative text is wonderfully enhanced with full-color photography, sections on soils and fertilizers, insects, disease, containers and potting, pruning, and general trouble shooting. Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants is a welcome and invaluable addition to any serious gardening or horticulture reference shelf.