Book: The Homeowner's Complete Tree & Shrub Handbook
Price range: $29

Trees and shrubs can be the heart and soul of the home landscape plane, providing spring blossoms, summer fruit, a regal silhouette, and rough and rugged bark, or seasonally changing foliage. Learn how to use them effectively with this comprehensive handbook, covering all the essentials of woody plant gardening. In addition to basic design principles and plant selection and care, the handbook features an extensive encyclopedia of hundreds of tree and shrub profiles, covering ease of cultivation, availability, history, hardiness, size and growth rate, and special characteristics.

416 pages, 8 1/2 x 10 7/8 trim size, full-color photographs and illustrations throughout.