Botany for Gardeners

Posted on 22 October 2018 by Brian Capon

A bestseller since its debut in 1990, this indispensable and handy reference has now been expanded and updated to include an appendix on plant taxonomy and a comprehensive index Two dozen new photos and illustrations make this new edition even richer with information Its convenient paperback format makes it easy to carry and access, whether you are in or out of the garden An essential overview of the science behind plants for beginning and advanced gardeners alike. Read Botany for Gardeners – kino-fada.fr Botany for Gardeners is an excellent intro to botany for anyone Luckily, gardeners in this context seems to simply refer to anyone who wants to learn about botany outside of a school course and from a book that isn t a textbook unlike several other agroecology focused books I ve read recently that wereabout gardening advice somewhat informed by science than about the science itself While perhaps not as compelling as David Attenborough s The Private Life of Plants, Botany for Gardeners Botany for Gardeners is an excellent intro to botany for anyone Luckily, gardeners in this context seems to simply refer to anyone who wants to learn about botany outside of a school course and from a book that isn t a textbook unlike several other agroecology focused books I ve read recently that wereabout gardening advice somewhat informed by science than about the science itself While perhaps not as compelling as David Attenborough s The Private Life of Plants, Botany for Gardeners had muc...We read this book for my botany class We ended up skipping around a lot, but eventually read the whole thing The book is informative with lots of vibrant pictures and diagrams, which makes understanding these somewhat overwhelming and technical term...I had to read this book in about 3 weeks for an exam It reads a little dense for material but it s very thorough I suggest familiarizing yourself with some plant anatomy before delving in as this text doesn t address the basics.I read this because I thought I was going to be taking a botany ish class the class ended up not happening but this was a good book Plants are terrifying.One of the few textbooks I ve ever actually read, front to back Usually professors just pick and choose chapters It is an easy book to understand for the most part Covers the science of plants, and how they grow and reproduce.I really liked this book, it s very indepth about how plants grow and their needs This book might be a bit advanced for the average gardner who justs wants to grow some annuals and the odd perrenial, and just wants an instruction book on where and when to plant them This book explains the actually works of the plant and gives you whys of where you should plant them in the parti...This is an excellent primer on botanical topics While most of the information had been covered in many of my collegiate classes, I was impressed by the author s ability to synthesize breadth of detail with accessibility and ease of reading The book also managed to cover a a lot ground, evident by the inclusion of topics that came up in an array of classes I had taken from biology to entomology, and plant identification to soil science Overall, this is a great book for anyone interested in This is an excell...I was reading this book for an hour at a time sitting in the front garden, luxuriating in the subtropical winter sunshine, so I could leap up and examine leaves and stems as needed or just contemplate the plants around me in a new li...This book really changed my approach to gardening There are a million tips online for different plants and often the advice is contradictory This helped me get to the basics of how plants work and what ...Contrary to its title, this book is actually really interesting It is totally accessible, and it leaves me with facts about how plants grow that I find myself referring to when looking at a plant.Like, look at the shape of that leaf it means this Or, those buttress roots ...

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22 October 2018

Brian Capon