Keep out nosy neighbors and fashion a beautiful, natural backdrop using evergreens!

Vincent Simeone, master plantsman, offers ideal evergreens for landscaping purposes. Great Landscape Evergreens, the fourth book in Simeone’s informal series, provides great insight on how evergreens can be used to best effect in the landscape—as winter interest; as borders, hedges, and living fences; and as screens to block unsightly views and to offer privacy.

Simeone includes detailed entries for more than 80 species, including conifers, broadleaf evergreens, and some deciduous and semi-evergreen shrubs, describing each plant’s size, shape, color, flower, light and soil requirements, hardiness zones, and uses in the landscape. Beautiful photographs show evergreens used in the landscape. Planting and care instructions round out the book, along with a list of “Vinnie’s Top Fifteen Screening Plants.”

Make your landscape beautiful and create privacy with this great new addition!

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. Simeone is a lecturer, teacher and horticultural consultant. His other books include Great Flowering Landscape Shrubs, Wonders of the Winter Landscape and Great Flowering Landscape Trees. Vincent Simeone resides in Oyster Bay, New York.

Available in April 2008

Book Details:

Title: Great Landscape Evergreens

Author: Vincent A. Simeone

Publisher: Ball Publishing, Distributed by Independent Publishers Group

Publication: April 2008, $24.95 (CAN $27.95), Hardcover, ISBN:  978-1-883052638

Gardening, 152 pages, 8 x 8, color photographs

For more information contact Vincent Simeone at VASimeone@aol.com