The New Western Garden Book: The Ultimate Gardening Guide
The New Western Garden Book: The Ultimate Gardening Guide [The Ninth Edition]
Pros:
- This book provides a very comprehensive database for plants’ characteristics and care.
- Colour picture allows better understanding of the plants, despite not all plants are featured with photos.
Cons:
- This book does not provide detailed information for plant identification purposes, for example, leafs arrangements (opposite/alternate) are not listed.
- The family name of a couple of plants provided by the book is different from other major sources.
- Hardiness information does not follow the USDA scale.
- Arrangement of book makes it hard to find a certain plants occasionally; Phyllostachys bambusoides is listed alphabetically under Bamboo instead of under its scientific name Phyllostachys bambusoides.