This may seem like an impossible question to answer, but what is the best book out there for specific plant information. You know, I have a plant and I want to find it easily in the back of the book and want a lot of information.

At the book store I always see this huge book title "Flora - Gardeners encyclopedia" and wonder if it's something I should pick up used somewhere. Anyone have favorites?

thanks

I have always liked Sunset's Gardening book.  I wore mine out. 

I have  The American Horiticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers (whew! and it's as big as it's name!)

I also have Botanica's Gardening Encyclopedia

Etc. Etc.  But my favorite - for sheer amount of fast information - Sunset.

 I'm sure other people have more input.

I have Southern Living Gardenbook. it has some color pages in the front and some in the back.has some gardening tips for types of gardening  details.The plant details are in color.Its for southern gardening.I've sleept with this book some too.

My sister has a practical guide to gardening by southern living.

For Christmas she gave me an old paperback 'A complete Guide to Gardening ' by Montague Free  its from 1967.Its a year older than me

I've checked out botony 101 out of the library.it covered everything& had lots more changes than my 700 page gardenbook.

 

MIL has a gardening for dummies gardenbook& houseplant book.I like the houseplant book .

My last tool-book.Stokes seed catalog.it has germnation rates-temps-growth info-bloom time info 

Great...I know that Southern Living Gardenbook is in my future since we're heading down to Austin.

I want to find a great book that suggests plant combinations for different gardens/climates. And actually I want to rework the plant database here on the web site to make it much more interactive and have people group their favorite plants together and suggest combinations.

Patrick

I have the AHS Great Plant Guide and also just picked up A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants(it's huge with everything you need to know). They are both great books and as long as you know the name or at least the first letter, they have great pictures and all the info you need for planting, seeding, fertilizing etc. If you don't know the name though you have a lot of pages to go through. Sounds ominous, but you find and see a lot of other plants and flowers along the way.