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Winter Pens New Book

Paradise Found

Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard

Whether you want to create your own tropical paradise of just add some color and textural interest to you landscape Paradise Found is destined to be one book that you will consult again and again, says William C. Welch author of Perennial Garden Color & Antique Roses.

Paradise Found, Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard is written by Norman Winter and published by Taylor Publishing, Dallas, TX. To order books wholesale to sell at your garden center call the national Book Network at 800-462-6420.

Norman Winter is also author of MS Gardener’s Guide published by Cool Springs Press, Nashville, TN that has just received the Non-fiction Book of the Year from the MS Library Assoc. Cool Springs Press has recently sold to Thomas Nelson Publishing in Nashville, TN. To place new orders for MS Gardener’s Guides, call 800-251-4000.

Winter says growing a tropical garden is most assuredly an attempt to get a certain appearance, but it also says something about the gardener’s disposition, work has been left at the office , stress abandoned at the freeway exit. The tropical garden does just that and more; it creates a mood; the gardener uses design and plants to make a private utopia.

Paradise Found features lavish photographs, with detailed instructions, for planting, growing, landscape application and best varieties available. Welch who wrote the forward for Paradise Found says many of these tropicals are perennial in our warmer zones, but if winter protection is not convenient, they are worth using as annuals.

In Paradise Found, Winter says in addition to buying petunias and marigolds at the local garden center, many gardeners now have th option of buying new mandevillas, heliconias, gingers or Cat’s Wiskers for about the same price. The advent of tissue culture has opened the door for disease-free topicals to be produced quickly and economically. Tody when you to to the garden center you’re sure to notice plants you have seen before. Not since the great plant exploration period of the eighteenth centuries have so many plants bee brought to the market for gardeners everywhere.

Winter says that for 250 to 300 days per year, the backyard can be Jamaica or Martinique. That look and that attitude are sitting in plastic containers at your local garden center. Once tropical plants are in your landscape, your whole yard will change, and you’ll realize it’s not paradise lost; it’s Paradise Found.

Paradise Found is 192 pages and features 250 color photographs of choice plants and landscape ideas that every gardener can use. Paradise Found retails for $18.95. Autographed copies can be purchased by sending $23.00 to Paradise Found, 1075 Centre Pointe Drive, Brandon, MS 39042.

This includes shipping and handling.