Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants

Logee's Greenhouses is renowned worldwide as a leader in the horticultural industry, and since 1892 has been growing and selling over a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use. In this book, the third-generation owners of Logee's share the 109-year-old family secrets on how to grow exotic flowers. A no-nonsense approach to tropical plant care, coupled with exquisite photographs and inspirational messages, makes this book outstanding in its field. Designed to take the fear out of growing exoctics and tropicals, the text features 80 of the most popular genera and gives detailed information about how to grow, care for, prune and winter-over these beautiful plants. Specialties include dramatic flowering plants, fragrant plants, angel's trumpets, begonias, passion flowers, gesneriads, jasmines, hibiscus, and hoyas featured in brilliant, large-format color photographs. Also included are sections on soils! and fertilzers, insects and disease, containers and potting, pruning, and trouble shooting. A truly unique gardening choice for any plant lover.