Botany for Gardeners
August 11, 2009 by Gardening Ideas
Botany for Gardeners offers a clear explanation of how plants grow.
> What happens inside a seed after it is planted? > How are plants structured? > How do plants adapt to their environment? > How is water transported from soil to leaves? > Why are minerals, air, and light important for healthy plant growth? > How do plants reproduce?
The answers to these and other questions about complex plant processes, written in everyday language, allow gardeners and horticulturists to understand plants “from the plant’s point of view.”
A best-seller since its debut in 1990, Botany for Gardeners has now been expanded and updated, and includes an appendix on plant taxonomy and a comprehensive index. Two dozen new photos and illustrations make this new edition even more attractive than its predecessor.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Basic Gardening
Excellent basics for understanding those silly plants. finally, a comprehensive guide to just what is going on in the plant world, and easily understood. I think it is a must have for beginners and teachers.
5 Stars Excellent introductory book on botany
This is an excellent introductory text on plants. Anyone who gardens, forages for edible wild plants, or has an interest in ecology, will find everything they need here. The explanations are clear, concise, and contain all the vital information in each area. The diagrams are fantastic, and very informative.
Highly, highly, recommended!
4 Stars New, new, new, just what I ordered!
Currently using this book in a Principles of Horticulture class, it is very detailed in some of its descriptions, a useful learning tool with great pictures.
5 Stars Easy to Read
For a text book, this reads more like short stories. Very easy to read and understand.
3 Stars Botany for more than just beginners
This definitely is a valuable book for any gardener who’s looking for a book on botany. Personally, I was hoping for simpler insights into the miracles that I observe taking place in the garden — and I did learn a lot from this book. However, while “Botany for Gardeners” was touted as elementary, plowing through it (pun intended) proved to require quite a bit of perseverance. Because the book, admirably, covers all the technical matters in the field of botany, it does tend to be, well, technical. (Botany is, after all, a science!) In the end, I would have preferred something like “Botany for Dummies,” but, as yet, there’s no such title. But “Botany for Gardeners” will retain a useful place on my garden bookshelf.
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