Stormscaping (Florida Gardening Series, Vol. 3)
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Book Description
Learn landscape secrets that can save your garden, your home, and maybe your sanity after the next big one in Florida!
Pamela Crawford, bestselling Florida garden author and researcher, has a new book that will show you how to landscape to minimize wind damage, both to your garden and your home. She has researched and analyzed thousands of pages of data and spoken to hundreds of experts - from Max Mayfield, the director of the National Hurricane Center, 37 different county extension directors, four botanical gardens, 12 researchers from University of Florida, and many emergency managers - and found answers that every homeowner in Florida needs to know. The results of her research are astounding, and can make your experiences in the next hurricane go from catastrophic to a mere inconvenience.
About the Author
Pamela Crawford began gardening at age 3 with her English mother in Mississippi. She moved to Florida in the 70's, planning a gorgeous garden filled with color. The next few years brought more blunders than blooms, as she made every gardening mistake in the book! These early errors started a three-decade saga to learn everything she could about Florida gardening. She got a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from Florida International University, followed by starting a nursery and garden design business. While designing 1500 gardens, she also started trial gardens to determine which Florida plants gave the highest performance with the least amount of care. Of the 2500 plants tested to date, only 230 passed her difficult trials. These are truly tough plants!
After her first hurricane experience in 2004, she decided to either move out of Florida or figure out better landscape methods that would reduce the devastation she saw in the four hurricanes of that year. Luckily, she discovered both strong trees and design methods that could actually minimize damage to Florida homes and gardens after hurricanes. She is not moving!
10 years ago, Pamela began shipping plants to Mississippi to learn more about the cold tolerance of her plants. These results have great applicability to the northern parts of Florida.
Pamela is planning three books in her Florida Gardening Series. The first book, "Easy Gardens for South Florida", was published in 2000 and features 100 easy plants as well as all you ever needed to know about how to plant and maintain your Florida garden. "Best Garden Color for Florida" is the second volume. "Containers Gardens for Florida" is the third volume, which should be released in early 2005.
Stormscaping (Florida Gardening Series, Vol. 3),Pamela Crawford,Color Garden Publishing,0971222029,Gardening,Gardening/Plants,Landscape
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