Great Flowering Landscape Trees

by Vincent A. Simeone

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Price: $24.95

Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Ball Publishing ©2007
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1883052539
Dimensions: 8 x 8 x .6 inches
Weight: 1.19 pounds

From the author of Great Flowering Landscape Shrubs and Wonders of the Winter Landscape comes a book highlighting flowering trees to give a color interest to your landscape. Take Simeone’s excellent advice on the ideal flowering trees for home and urban landscapes. Chapters also describe how best to plant trees, how to use trees in the landscape, how to prune and maintain the trees, and how to manage pests and diseases incorporating integrated pest management, which incorporates natural and organic treatments when possible. Resources for more information and ordering shrubs are provided, as is a bibliography and USDA Zone Map. Color photos throughout.

About the Author

Vincent Simeone is the director of Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, New York. Simeone has specialized expertise in woody plant identification, plant culture, landscape use and selection of superior varieties. He continues to promote innovative trends in gardening such as proper plant selection, four-season gardening, integrated pest management, historic landscape preservation, and low-maintenance gardening. Simoene is a lecturer, teacher and horticultural consultant. Vincent Simeone resides in Oyster Bay, New York.