Landscape Trees and Shrubs: Selection, Use and Management
Posted by Urban Planning Theory at 12:50 AMThis book presents a horticultural overview of the main plant families of trees and shrubs from temperate regions that are cultivated in urban and rural landscape schemes. Most of the plants used come from a limited number of plant families and within these families, certain genera contributevery significantly. The largest chapter in the book describes 37 plant families according to their identification, functional use and management in landscape schemes. With this information readers will be able to assess the suitability of species and prepare planting designs for prevailingsites. This book presents a horticultural overview of the main plant families of trees and shrubs from temperate regions that are cultivated in urban and rural landscape schemes. Most of the plants used come from a limited number of plant families and within these families, certain genera contributevery significantly. The largest chapter in the book describes 37 plant families according to their identification, functional use and management in landscape schemes. With this information readers will be able to assess the suitability of species and prepare planting designs for prevailingsites.
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single specimens, but in relation to their setting of house or wall, lawn or woodland, or as a foreground to the landscape, planned for the beauty of the whole effect - Page 134
nomenclature is regulated by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Greuter et al., 2000) and the International Code - Page 27
Land Use Consultants (1993) Trees in Towns: A Survey of Trees in 66 Towns and Villages in England. - Page 11
can provide some of the best of shelter-plants for such climates, and a few of them rank among the most beautiful flowering shrubs we - Page 42
Adaptability to existing conditions and the power to see and use the natural beauties of the ground to the greatest advantage are - Page 133
McKay, H. (1997) Sensitivity of Broadleaved Trees to Desiccation and Rough Handling Between Lifting and Transplanting. Arboriculture Research and Information Note, - Page 152
Cutler, DF (1998) Can we live with trees in our towns and cities? Arboricultural Journal 22, 1-9. - Page 11
(2002) Tree establishment practice in towns and cities results from a European survey. Urban - Page 3
named for Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, - Page 30
The selection of plant materials for street trees, park trees and urban woodland. - Page 128
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+ By Mary Forrest
+ Published 2006, CABI Publishing
+ 250 pages
+ ISBN 1845930541