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GLASSHOUSE WORKS BOOK LIST 2013

We are pleased to offer the following list of books useful as reference and as inspiration for the plant collector and hobbyist. Please use our stock numbers below for invoicing purposes; shipping costs for books are independent from plant shipping costs. Please add shipping totals. Books can be ordered with plants or by themselves. Shipping costs for each book are listed after the description. Books will be shipped separately from your plant order as processing will begin immediately upon receipt of order.

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18039 COLEUS: RAINBOW FOLIAGE FOR CONTAINERS AND GARDENS. New and wonderful book. There is no way that the Glasshouse Works could not offer this book! Coleus are our love!! By Ray Rogers. Photographs by Richard Hartlage. Coleus are no longer your grandmother's parlor plants. Favorites during the Victorian era, these plants have made a dramatic comeback with a dazzling variety of leaf color, shape, and pattern. No other plant is so easy to grow and propagate. Their sumptuous colors and tough constitution make coleus ideal both as attention-getting focal points and as complements to other foliage or flowering plants. In this lavishly illustrated volume, expert plantsman Ray Rogers offers equal parts of design inspiration and practical advice. The book contains 404 full-color photographs and presents 225 cultivars in the encyclopedia section, which is organized along the lines of plant habit and leaf shape/color. Three major chapters present the ins and outs of culture, propagation, and problems we might encounter along the way. Other chapters cover history, designing with coleus, coleus in containers and in the garden in general, and sporting and reversion. $ 29.95 plus $ 4.50 shipping.

An excerpt from this book: "While the skeptics and unbelievers would answer this question with, "What? There's such a thing as a good coleus?", any coleophile worth his or her salt appreciates which characteristics set a given coleus above another. Perhaps the most important quality of a good coleus is its "set and forget" nature (thanks to Vern Ogren of Color Farm for this catchy term): plant it and enjoy it without needing to make a constant fuss over it. Of course any plant deserves to receive sound horticultural treatment from its caretaker, with at least some thought given to its selection, function, and placement in the garden; adequate site preparation; appropriate amounts of water and fertilizer; and protection from the elements, insects, diseases, and the like."

99524 HORTICA: COLOR CYCLOPEDIA OF GARDEN FLORA IN ALL CLIMATES AND EXOTIC PLANTS INDOORS. New lower price on this wonderful book. A massive undertaking with some 8,100 brilliantly colored photos (on some 920 pages); with an extensive index of valuable descriptive & cultural in formation on every plant illustrated (from the equator to the Arctic reaches). If you need a clear pictorial visualization & solid cultural suggestions about a plant offered in our catalogue, this is a good place to pin it down. Even if the exact species or the exact cultivar of hybrid is not pictured, you will probably be able to locate a similar species or related cousin in Hortica to help you conceptualize our plant. The scope of the enormous book includes essays on scientific names, climatic maps, botanical terms; the special sections on bamboo bonsai, topiary, fruit & nut trees presents a world view, not a single national view of these categories. All this adds up to 1218 pages. Dr. Alfred Byrd Graf. $145.00 plus $20.00 shipping and handling.

92021 FLORA This comprehensive, beautifully illustrated encyclopedia contains information on more than 20,000 plants from all around the world. Organized in an A–Z format by botanical name, the individual entries provide a detailed description of each plant and its features, including notes on origin, cultivation requirements, growth habit, propagation, and pests and diseases. The introduction explains how the 12 climatic zones work and looks at the environment and the plants that grow in those zones. Also included are lists of plants suitable for growing in specific areas and ideas for garden design. Flora covers all the plant groups: trees, shrubs, annuals and perennials, bulbs, corms and tubers, cacti and succulents, lawns, ground covers, ornamental grasses, herbs, vegetables, fruit trees, other fruits, nut trees, palms and cycads, ferns, climbers and creepers, and orchids. Written by a team of international botanical and horticultural writers, this book will allow all gardeners to choose the perfect plants for their garden and to expand their knowledge on the wealth of plants available. The stunning color photography from all around the world is the perfect complement to the text. 0-88192-538-1, 1584 pp, 2 volumes with slipcase (not sold separately), over 12,000 color photos, 101 color illustrations, 14 maps, CD-ROM included with first edition, 9 x 12", hardcover, © 2003 $ 99.95 plus $9.50 shipping.

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99639 THE HOUSE PLANT ENCYCLOPEDIA. Ingrid Jantra & Ursula Kruger. With some 2,000 color photos, few tropical plant collectors can ignore this compendium of solid cultural information - some of the "Tips" entries are inspired, some of the photos (like that of "Burro Tail") will send you right out to your greenhouse, the impressive gallery of rarities (at end of the 384 page book) contains the only photos we know of illustration of numerous choice plants offered in our catalogue. Some designations of "houseplants" (Ricinus, Schizanthus, pansies, etc) give us a slight cultural displacement; but the lack of a sharp-eyed editor when such a comprehensive work was translated into English as well as into USA horticultural jargon, results in some distinctly odd transformations of Plectranthus, Begonias, Salvias and cultivar names in general - so simply play "I Be Editor" when swooping through such rough patches, remembering that disjunctures in nomenclature do exist between Europe & American horticultural use. Large format hardcover for a bargain $40.00 plus $6.50.

18035 TEMPTING TROPICALS 175 IRRESTIBLE INDOOR PLANTS By Ellen Zachos. Original and unique, this guide to luscious, choice indoor plants will convert anyone to a passion for gardening indoors. The possibilities presented are dazzling — lush flowering vines or petite carnivorous plants, intoxicating fragrant jasmine or spiky sculptural succulents. Included are chapters on sustenance, container choices, light, water and temperature requirements, propagation, pests and diseases, even how to summer plants outdoors and travel with them on holidays. Over 200 gorgeous color photographs round out the detailed descriptions of 175 choice plants native to both tropical and temperate regions. In her entertaining style, plant fanatic Ellen Zachos invites everyone, from the horticulturally clueless to the avidly addicted, to share her passion for exotic and unusual indoor plants. Hardcover. $29.95 $ plus $4.50 shipping

99873 TOPIARIES AND ESPALIERS, Plus Other Designs for Shaping Plants. Linda Yang takes a richly illustrated horticultural romp through serious garden design and hopeless whimsy--all with her usually high verve writing style. From frameless topiary ( spirals, corkscrews, tiers, poodles) on to framed topiaries of Jasmine circles, ivy spirals, and ever onward to stuffed (moss filled) frames, Linda discusses how to achieve the end effect and what palette of plants to rely on. The 122 page book ends with a series of chapters on fruit trees & firethorn in espalier bondage, on boxwood (and other plants as well) in mazes, knots and parterres, on sheering hedges into amazing shapes (with suggestions of various victim species), on weaving your pleached beech, and finally on a bit of pollarding and coppicing. Hope you have some energy reserves because the fabulous color photos might challenge you to attempt some of these fantastic creations! $14.00 plus $4.50 shipping.

99633 THE TROPICAL LOOK. Robert Lee Riffle. "An Encyclopedia of Dramatic Landscape Plants" After making valuable distinctions between "tropicals" versus the typically chill tolerant "tropical appearing plants," Riffle presents exhaustive detailed entries for over 2,000 plants in this Zone 8 and up category full of solid information including Palms, ferns, aquatics & vines often overlooked in most books. While unfortunately no editor insisted on photos of each genera, the some 400 color photos included are excellent, often silently suggesting how to incorporate many of the plants we offer in our catalogue into marvelous exotic appearing gardens - whether using Aloes & dramatic Agaves, Alocasias and bolder Colocasias, incorporating Gingers & variegated Manihots, punching up a garden with bromos & pachys, or using passion vines & ferns to tie things together. Valuable compendiums close this massive book: lists of drought tolerant plants, of fragrant plants, of hedges, of shade tolerance, of variegate & colorful foliaged plants, of vines, etc. Large format hardback of 524 pages for $49.95 plus $6.50 shipping.

99845 THE ULTIMATE WATER GARDEN BOOK. Jean-Claude Arnoux. Yes, we also recoil at words like "Ultimate" in book titles--but this large sized book will extend your concepts of usable, workable plants from bog to pool to floating container plants. And the large color photos are used with abandon, starting with theme water gardens--Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, European classic, contemporary suburban, courtyard, fountain, wild, rockery, hardy exotic, and tropical. You will be motivated. Very detailed discussions of the ecology and installation (with pros and cons on each of the major concrete & liner types) of pools follow, then a survey of how to select the right plant for your location & type of design, expanded into a major section with excellent photos of habit, cultivar cultivation, and method of growing an enormous range of plants. We are impressed that a solid array of North American natives are included here, as well as an intelligent commentary on excellent tropicals--two categories mostly missing from other books on aquatics. Large format hardback of 216 pages for $39.95 plus $6.50 shipping.

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