Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propogation and Uses

This book is invaluable for researching woody plants and also for woody plant ID. It details virtually every woody plant along with the various cultivars of each. Each entry describes various plant parts such as leaves, bark, flowers, fruit, size, hardiness, diseases and insects, propagation, (and more) in an easy to read format, and then Dirr gives his opinion on the landscape value of each plant and any other thoughts or experiences he has had with that plant. There are also sketches (B&W) of most plants, usually the leaf and bud. This book is infinitely useful and definitely worth the money. I can't even imagine how much work went into the writing of this text; it's incredible. Dirr's knowledge of woody plants is unbelievable.

The product arrived on time. The product is an excellent reference!

This reference manual is great. Has all the info one might need to begin studying woody plant material. I wish it were in hardcover. The soft covers get worn out from being put in and taken out of book bags and just generally from being constantly carried around and flipped through.

This book was great. I am impressed with the amount of information on each tree.

The book is fantastic...it is extensive, very detailed and precise, the drawings are accurate and lovely. All in all, I'm very pleased with the book and am certain it will be very useful among my reference books. The bad things was that about the last fourth of the pages had a severe crease in them that made it hard to use for a long time. I put it under a large stack of books and used it from that weighted stack with much effort. It has straightened out a great deal, but is still not perfect. I needed it immediately or I would have refused to accept it, and returned it.

Required reading for my Horticulture class. Valuable tool for the home gardener as well. Have used it many times. Author has a sense of humor too.

This book is full of great information. The only concern I have is that the listings for each plant is in consistent. Some are listed concisely with the information broken into easily digestible blocks of information others are written in paragraph form. I guessing these are the differences between each contributing author and how they organize their data but one format is far easier to directly access the knowledge you are looking for.

Packed with information on various woody plants.

This is a must for all professionals in the plant & tree industries. The book provides a wealth of information on a vast number of trees and shrubs and related varieties and cultivars. Fantastic reference book.

très bon bon livre de référence

Perfect resource for my classes and for the long term.

Really good book for identifying woody plants. Could use some pictures but other the. That's its a great book.

Required textbook for landscaping program. Very good condition. Reasonable price.