Few of the plants we grow in our gardens today are native to where we live. Some acclimatize readily, but many more can be made to succeed if we understand their climatic needs. Jane Taylor describes a wide range of ways in which gardeners can enhance plants' chances of survival, or their performance in flowering and fruiting, by exploiting and adapting garden microclimates. The book starts by looking at how heat, cold, wind, water and drought affect plant life, and how climate both changes and is changed by local topography and soil type. It then deals with the forms into which plants have evolved under the force of climatic conditions, and their adaptations to extremes of weather as well as - for example - day length or periodic fire. Finally it lists a vast range of plants, both popular and more exotic, giving detailed descriptions of their individual origins and climatic sensitivities.
- ISBN10 0719552672
- ISBN13 9780719552670
- Publish Date 23 May 1996
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English