Deep South Native Plants for the Home Garden: A Journey to Discover a Selection of Winners

Deep South Native Plants for the Home Garden:

A Journey to Discover a Selection of Winners

Perhaps...

• you love gardening and you’re ready to do something positive for Mother Earth.
• you’ve been hearing a lot about native plants, but those huge reference books are a little daunting.
• you'd love a beautiful backyard that’s full of the activity of butterflies, bees, and birds.
• you're anewcomer to the South, and you’d like a few suggestions about plants that will most likely succeed in your landscape.
• Or…perhaps you valuegardening with a minimum of labor and expense.

If any or all of the above statements resonate with you,this bookis aimed in your direction. In these pages, the author serves as a tour guide on an imaginary bus trip through South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The goal of the journey is to identify a small selection of the thousands of perennial plants that are most at home in the Deep South.

This isn’t a comprehensive reference book though it does contain quite a bit of information. Deep South Native Plants for the Home Garden is written in a breezy, slightly playful style, with plant information and 35 color photos sprinkled with informal anecdotes. It’s light reading but it carries the weight of an important message. It’s more of a mini-guide to an A-List, a few fabulous native plant winners that can be planted at home by a beginning gardener, by a master gardener, or by anyone who cares about Mother Earth. By YOU, hopefully!