| 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.
Contents Include:
- Best plants for hurricanes,
- Worst plants for hurricanes,
- Trees that are dangerous,
- "Survivor" gardens that handle storms well,
- The strongest plants to beautify and protect your home and garden.
About the Author:
Pamela Crawford has a BA from Vanderbilt University and a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from Florida International University. She has designed over 1500 gardens for residences, businesses and country clubs. This is Pamela's third book, and was inspired by the destruction she saw after Florida's 2004 hurricane season. Pamela and her research assistant, Barbara Hadsell, consulted with the best experts on both sides - weather and landscaping. What they found were significant solutions that will minimize landscape damage in future hurricanes and beautify gardens as well. This book could save your garden, your home and maybe your sanity after the next big one. 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.
Table of Contents:
Contributors; Zone Map; Author's Notes; Glossary; Chapter 1: Understand Hurricane Basics; Chapter 2: Know Your Plant's Wind Tolerance; Chapter 3: Other Reasons Why Trees Fall; Chapter 4: Designing to Minimize Wind Damage; Chapter 5: Proper Storm Aftercare. |
