Botany for Gardeners: An Introduction and Guide
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Book Overview
A clear, nontechnical explanation of how plants work, and our bestselling book. It succeeds in explaining the complex processes of plant growth, functions, adaptation, responses, and reproduction in simple language. As the author intended, the gardener can come to understand a plant "from the plant's point of view."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0881922587
ISBN13:9780881922585
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Timber Press (OR)
Length:220 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
7 ratings
very comprehensive!
Published by K7 , 3 years ago
I ordered this for a college course a while back and found it very helpful. The information is communicated well and I found it incredibly interesting. Great book :]
Really am enjoying reading this. Learned a lot
Published by Donna Kimpton , 4 years ago
easy to understand
Botany Made Easy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
This book was recommended in the Master Gardener program. It is very readable with lots of useful photos and diagrams. It makes a difficult subject easy to understand. Highly recommended.
Educational and interesting
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Anyone who has been reading gardening books for a while is bound to start wondering about the underlying science. This is the perfect introductory book. It's rigorous, but there's still room to toss out the occasional interesting fact, such as grasses evolved their unique ability to regrow leaves in response to grazing animals. Or tropical trees have no rings. Worth a dozen ordinary gardening books.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Absolutely fascinating book, written with an obvious awe and love of the plant kingdom. Pictures are great; so are drawings. Author makes very clear what can be a complicated subject. Really renews one's love of gardening. Included are a few practical hints as well. Tells how plants are constructed and how they grow; all about each part of a flower; what happens to water after roots draw it from the soil; a most readable explanation of photosynthesis, why gardeners prune, all about stems and roots, what happens inside seeds, etc. I really learned a lot. Especially about why certain gardening practices are beneficial to plants - why we do the things we do, and the true miracle of life that plants are. We exist because of the life of plants.
An instructional, scientific text
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Now in a newly revised edition, Botany For Gardeners is an instructional, scientific text written specifically in everyday language for gardeners, horticulturalists, and lay people. Author Brian Capon, a former professor of botany with thirty years' experience, explains how plants are structured, how they adapt to their environment, how water is transported from soil to leaves, why minerals, air, and light are important for healthy plant growth, how plants reproduce, and much more. Black-and-white diagrams and color photographs illustrate this superb self-teaching tool for the truly dedicated gardening enthusiast.
just the facts
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Capon gets down to business and explains how plants work. No more will the reader/gardener utter such pablum as "pinching forces energy down instead of up in the plant." She/he will intelligently note that pinching the apical meristem decreases the hormones that control upward growth, thus increasing the activity of hormones controlling lateral growth. Very well explained facts about how plants do what they do.
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