Your Florida Guide to Perennials: Selection, Establishment, and Maintenance

Your Florida Guide to Perennials: Selection, Establishment, and Maintenance
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.93209759
EAN: 9780813029276
ISBN: 0813029279
Label: University Press of Florida
Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2006-06-04
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Studio: University Press of Florida

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From old favorites to new varieties, successful perennial gardening begins with this book.
 
Whether you are just gaining an interest in perennials or have a long-time appreciation of them, this fourth book in the popular Your Florida Guide to . . . series will becomea valuable gardening resource. Perennials provide extended seasons of color that enhance any landscape. With Your Florida Guide to Perennials you will recognize old favorites and be introduced to gorgeous new varieties to add to your garden’s plant palette.
Sydney Park Brown and Rick Schoellhorn combine 30 years horticulture experience, offering a variety of ways to select and enjoy perennials, such as fragrance, season of color, drought tolerance, shade tolerance, and wildlife attractants. They provide information not currently available to either consumers or industry professionals on perennial selection, use, and care. Over 250 perennials are featured in a user-friendly format that includes a plant identification color wheel, sidebars, and nearly 200 full-color photos for easy identification. Gingers, begonias, and salvias are given special treatment with pages devoted to these large and diverse plant groups. All the major climatic zones in Florida are covered along with success tips for each zone. Native species are noted.



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Summary: Highly Recommended
Comment: Highly recommended book for Floridians, it's helpful and easy to understand even if you don't have a green thumb.

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Summary: A multifaceted study of a little known aspect of the Civil Rights Movement
Comment: Much has been said and written about how television raised the veil on Jim Crow - for example, the fact that stark images of police brutality against African Americans were broadcast into homes around the nation. But before television, Americans connected with the world via radio, and Jim Crow lacked the power to segregate what came over the airwaves.

Ward explores the myriad ways network and local radio were used to advance the cause of Civil Rights and racial uplift, from obvious uses such as announcements of protests and rallies, to more subtle image enhancing programs such as "homemaker shows" (which might have served double duty by helping to create the collective female consciousness so crucial to the movement.)

Ward neither presents nor defends a monolithic image of black vs white radio owners, producers, on-air personalities or even consumers. Throughout the book, in various towns and sometimes even at the same station, we meet some professionals of both races dedicated to the cause, and others dedicated to the bottom line. We meet listeners who are tuning in for news of the struggle and others who just want to be entertained. Sometimes they got both at the same time.

It's rare to find a book which is both exhaustively researched AND enjoyable to read. I can obviously recommend it to anyone interested in African American Studies but I go a step further and recommend it to "old time radio" buffs as well. As one with an interest in both areas, I feel like I got 2 books for the price of one!

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Summary: flower power!
Comment: Get source of information, clearly laid out with lots of photos.
Well worth having as a reference source for Florida gardening.


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