Essential Native Trees and Shrubs for the Eastern United States: The Guide to Creating a Sustainable Landscape, Dove Tony, Woolridge Ginger

Gleaned from the authors 75 years of landscaping experience, this user-friendly reference offers suggestions on species selection based on a plants performance, aesthetic appeal, and wide range of adaptability. Expert authors Tony Dove and Ginger Woolridges valuable resource is organized for fast and confident tree and shrub selections for specific landscape applications, and is full of vivid four-color photographs, graphs, and practical tips. A sound and giftable volume for gardeners and landscapers from New England through the Carolinas, from the east coast to the Mississippi River, including Georgia and into northern Florida.

Plant the proper trees and shrubs to nurture your local bees, butterflies, moths and birds with help from Essential Native Trees and Shrubs for the Eastern United States: The Guide to Creating a Sustainable Landscape by Tony Dove, who has managed public gardens on the East Coast for 50 years, and Ginger Woolridge, a Maryland-based garden designer. This is an authoritative catalog, organized by a range of categories: those that have attractive bark or are evergreen, those that have showy flowers or are wind, salt or drought tolerant.
--New York Times Summer Reading List for The Great Outdoors

An important new tool to our native plant libraries. . . Beautifully illustrated, even the well-informed gardener will find this a valuable reference.
--Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, co-author of The Living Landscape, and Chair and Professor of the department of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware

Few books give such well-researched detail into where and how to utilize both common and sorely underutilized native trees and shrubs in the landscape. This book should be a required reference for nurserymen and landscape designers.new
--Mark Weathington, Director, JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University

FINALLY In a thoughtful, organized and simple format, this book illustrates how to build better landscapes, gardens, and environmentally sensitive ecologies. This is a long overdue book and it has my absolute endorsement.
--Eric D. Groft, Principal/Vice President, Oehme van Sweden, Landscape Architecture

I was impressed with the comprehensive plant lists at the beginning of the book. Most gardening/landscape books place such lists in the back of the book and usually do not cover as many areas as yours does e.g. Trees with Showy Flowers, Trees for Planting Beneath Utility Lines, Wind Tolerant Trees, etc. I thought the addition of pictorial representations of height as well as seasons of interest was very useful, especially for those who are visual learners. I particularly appreciated the colored flower, fruit, and leaf color indications in the Seasons of Interest section - Great idea The inclusion of the wildlife benefits of each tree or shrub is also a valuable tool for eco-friendly gardeners and landscapers.