This is an easy-to-use guide to selecting hundreds of perennial species. It is indispensable for growers and designers working in subtropical and warm temperate/arid climates, and also includes some cool-climate tolerant species. Permaculture Plants: A Selection details hundreds of common and unusual edible, medicinal, and useful plants…. More >>
Permaculture Plants: A Selection
Tags: arid climates, climate, designers, perennial species, Permaculture, Plants, Selection, tolerant species, useful plants
The selection is OK for me. This book reflects practical experience from Australian Permies, and is really not so much an academic manual. Of course it needs more depth, but on the other hand, the “multiple functions” of the different species are really quite complete, covering topics that I miss in most other resources (mostly research work from botanists or biologists) – we really need to get more of this generalistic style “Permie information” out…this book is a good start-
As a first, introductory plant selection manual for some “quick” design solutions” this book helped me out many times. When you get more “into” project, you deepen your investigation, maybe with works like “Cornucopia” or “Edible food forests” from Jacke/ Toensmeier or “Perennial Vegetables” from Toensmeeier, but the last two have the disadvantage that they are more focused on temperate climates….
Rating: 4 / 5
I was very disappointed when I received this book. There are no photos or even paragraphs…Just a directory of summarized botanical information about plants…The plants listed don’t even have drawings or anything that would allow you to know what plant is being described (if you aren’t already familiar with the plant). Unless you are looking for a boring botanical directory, this is not the book for you. I didn’t find the book very helpful at all. Sad.
Rating: 2 / 5