Trees of Vancouver
A Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City
Description
Trees of Vancouver is an invaluable guidebook for visitors and
residents and an authoritative tool for horticulturists, landscape
architects, naturalists, and the nursery industry. It provides
detailed, easy-to-understand information on over 470 kinds of trees.
Each entry contains particulars about the origins, general appearance,
merits, problems, and uses in landscaping of individual species. To aid
further in identification, entries specify locations where outstanding
examples can be seen. The text is complemented by hundreds of the
author's delicate drawings of the leaves, flowers, fruits, or other
distinctive features of individual trees, and by colour plates of 86
trees. For the reader who wants to spend a pleasant day exploring and
identifying specimens, there are detailed maps of several locations in
the city where a wide variety of trees can be seen.
Reviews
The kind of book you end up appreciating more and more the more you use it. It's a super reference guide with great information on more than 470 kinds of trees that grow in Vancouver. It can be used by people who want to plan a day of exploring the trees in the city, as well as people who want to check out a specific type of tree before planting one in their yard.
- Steve Whysall
Trees of Vancouver is a guide for everyone ... A book about Vancouver's trees is appreciated, as trees are a natural part of the environment in publicly owned gardens, parks, and streets ... The author must be applauded for cataloguing our city trees: both visitors and residents are interested in them.
- John Brodie
The next time I go to Vancouver, I will take this excellent book with me ... Dr. Straley writes with the knowledge of an expert and style of a first rate communicator.
- Christopher Woods