Books Item ID: #1119Your Florida Landscape: A Complete Guide to Planting and Maintenance : Trees, Palms, Shrubs, Ground Covers and Vines
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Item DescriptionThis guide to landscaping in Florida includes discussion of trees, palms, shrubs, ground covers and vines, as well as the uses of mulches and compost. It should help readers to plan landscapes suited to a region's particular climate, microclimate, soil, and environmental challenges. Item Reviews3 Responses to “Your Florida Landscape: A Complete Guide to Planting and Maintenance : Trees, Palms, Shrubs, Ground Covers and Vines” |
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A silk palm tree has a fake trunk that act as a central support, an outside covering to camouflage the real material used for the trunk and detachable fronds. The fake trunk is affixed to a plane base that supports the total tree. silk palms are manufactured from a broad assortment of materials including plastic, canvas, steel, fiberglass and preserved palm. As an example, the fronds of some silk palms are produced with poly blend plastic that is durable in rough weather. The trunks are pressure-treated pine, making the palm look natural, but very inexpensive. Other trunk materials like steel or fiberglass cost more, do not retain the natural appearances of a live palm tree and have shorter a life. They are dug into the land or into a pot and will remain in direct contact with the earth for many years.
Silk palm trees are as varied as the natural plant with the palm type, foliage span, average trunk diameter, height and weight taken into consideration. As an example, an indoor royal coconut palm and a Polynesian palm alter from one another in that their trunks are made of timber and fiberglass respectively with diameters 7 and 9 ins. Silk palms can likewise be potted into containers similar to real trees. This can be done in a plastic pot by taping up the holes, mix weights for stone, brick or rock and then using expanding foam to cement the tree into the pot. After potting, the plant can be transferred into an ornamental container and your indoor plant is ready for display.
We offer a large selection of indoor & outdoor artificial palm trees online. We carry over 20 palm tree varieties including; bamboo palm, kentia palm, coconut palm and banana palm. We have pleasurable outdoor phoenix palm trees and a great choice of Bird of Paradise to pick out from. We provide Areca palms, palm trees, patio and outdoor palms, sago palms, lighted palms, palm wall decor, books and more.
Although not the most interesting “read”, this is a great reference book for gardening in South Florida. Straight forward without too much fluff. The section on pest control is a little heavy on identifying pests and little light on how to control them but the rest of the book is very clear on the basics. Probably not the best book for an advanced gardener but I highly recommend it for the novice like me who wants the nitty gritty on how to get going in Florida but doesn’t care about a fancy looking book.
I thought this was an excellent reference for selecting Florida bedding plants. I wanted a book that had lots of pictures of various plants and told me when and where to plant them. This book does that. It is limited on pest control, but has a good basic section on digging and prepping your bedding areas. It would be a great reference to take with you to the nursery when you are trying to decide which plants to purchase for your beds. It has more color photos for identification of bedding plants than most of the Florida gardening books out there.
I was so dispappointed in the presentation made in this book that I sent it back. The cover and even title give the impression that the book will include photgraphic and descriptive information regarding landscaping. What actually comes across is a very boring, poorly presented reference type of book that simply seems like an elaborate dictionary on various landscape terminology. The photographic connections were especially done poorly; all pictures relating to topics were simply united together in a large section at the back of the book. When a reference is made by an author regarding a specific subject, it is certainly best understood and appreciated by the reader when both are on the same page. It was also misleading in their title reference to Florida plants, shrubs, etc., that there would be direct inclusion of information of those subjects, but all that comes across is very general information relating to the words themselves. I have been working on my own Florida yard area now for over 5 years, enjoying what I have been learning by simple hands-on techniqe and questions to my neighbors. None of my own 26 personal plants were even directly mentioned in the book. Again, possibly some of the topics regarding pests or plant diseases might have been appreciated if the information would have been on the same pages as the related photographs–needing to turn clear to the the back of the book every time was a frustrating way to try and understand the connections.