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    Plants for Problem Places: Wet Soil [North American Edition]
    Plants for Problem Places: Wet Soil [North American Edition]
    Plants for Problem Places: Wet Soil [North American Edition]
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    Plants for Problem Places: Wet Soil [North American Edition]

    By Graham Rice

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    Wet soil is a killer for many plants, once they get their feet in soggy soil they just keel over and die. Fortunately, there are answers to this common problem and award-winning expert Graham Rice describes them here. Firstly, there are ways to make your yard less wet so that far more plants will be happy there; this book explains how to do that. Secondly, it’s important to realize that many beautiful plants enjoy wet roots – in fact they’ll only thrive in wet conditions. Graham Rice selects, describes and illustrates hundreds of plants that to beautify wet yards and wet gardens.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraham Rice
    Release dateMar 8, 2013
    ISBN9780982937327
    Plants for Problem Places: Wet Soil [North American Edition]
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    Graham Rice

    Graham Rice is one of the highest-regarded garden writers in the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Horticultural Society’s Encyclopedia of Perennials (2006), which is the largest book of its kind ever published. He is also author of more than 20 other books, including the Reader's Digest Complete Book of Perennials, Hardy Perennials (named best garden book by the British Garden Media Guild), and Discovering Annuals (finalist for a Guild Award) and The Ultimate Book of Small Gardens. He has won another Garden Media Guild award for magazine writing and another for the UK edition of his Encyclopedia of Perennials. He has earned Garden Writers Association of America awards for writing in a wide range of media, from magazine to web, including an award for his article, “Bambi, or Buzzsaw?” about the problem of deer in American gardens. In all, he has the rare distinction of winning three garden writing awards on each side of the Atlantic. A noted journalist, Graham has covered gardening topics for many major newspapers and magazines, and has written weekly as Gardening Correspondent for two top-selling British newspapers, The Observer and the London Evening Standard. He has also written for many garden magazines, including Horticulture, Garden Design and The American Gardener in the USA, and BBC Gardeners’ World magazine and The Garden (the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society) in Britain. He judges at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show. His blogs, Transatlantic Plantsman, and New Plants (for the Royal Horticultural Society) are followed avidly. Graham Rice was trained in horticulture at the prestigious Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. His marriage to American garden writer/photographer judywhite is a horticultural love story; they met while both covering the Chelsea Flower Show in 1997. Their stock photography library, GardenPhotos.com, has an inventory of over 250,000 images, their photos have been published in many major markets, and they have exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. The pair have published two gardening books together, with Rice as author and judywhite as photographer. They divide their gardening time between Pennsylvania and England.

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      Plants for Problem Places - Graham Rice

      Praise for Plants for Problem Places

      You can give up your home and move to a better garden site, or turn your liabilities into assets. Graham Rice makes a case for the latter in this delightfully written, well-organized primer... Should lighten the spirits of those disheartened by vexing gardens. Linda Yang, New York Times

      This is a wonderful little book that is the ultimate guide to knowing what to plant… The author is a great help, often giving exact cultivars of plants that will work for your problem spot. Seems to me any book by Graham Rice is amazingly researched and written in a sprightly style that's easy to read yet wonderfully instructive. Good for beginners as well as advanced gardeners. Gardening Girl, amazon.com Customer Review

      Advice is put over simply and unpretentiously. Garden Answers magazine

      Throughout, one hears the voice of experience bringing confidence in the advice. The Garden magazine

      Plants for Problem Places: Number 2

      WET SOIL

      by

      Graham Rice

      Solving the problem with plants

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      Plants for Problem Places: Wet Soil

      Copyright © Graham Rice 2013

      ISBN 13: 9780982937327

      North American Edition: Version 1.0

      Cover Image ©judywhite / GardenPhotos.com

      Other images ©judywhite / GardenPhotos.com and ©Graham Rice / GardenPhotos.com

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      Plants for Problem Places and The Planting Planner.

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      About this book

      * Analyzes the problem of wet soil

      * Suggests proven ways to improve wet soil

      * Recommends and describes the best trees, shrubs, vines, hedging, perennials, bulbs and annuals to grow in wet soil

      * Includes plants for zone 2 to zone 9

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      About Graham Rice

      * Internationally acclaimed expert on plants and gardening

      * Trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London

      * Winner of numerous awards for writing about gardening including three from the Garden Writers Association of America

      * Author of over twenty books, including the American Horticultural Society’s Encyclopedia of Perennials

      * Has written for Horticulture, Garden Design and The American Gardener and other magazines and publications in North America and around the

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