Vancouver Sun's Best Plant Picks

Keep your garden in bloom year-round with this invaluable resource guide.

A compilation of expert gardener Steve Whysall’s best columns from the past 15 years, Vancouver Sun’s Best Plant Picks will infuse your thumb with green and keep your garden flowering all year round. Whysall shares his wealth of horticultural knowledge in easy-to-follow sections, from how to create conditions that will make plants thrive to describing their distinctive features.

Plant Picks not only provides gardening options for every season, this comprehensive guide is also an invaluable tool for the gardener who wants to learn more about the plants he grows. Learn about new gardening trends, interesting historical tidbits about your favorite plants and practical information—from a plant’s common name to a species’ average height. Plant Picks features unique flowering garden plants for every month of the year, including:

    * Winter jasmine (February)
    * Camas lily (April)
    * Silk tree (July)
    * Camellia sasanqua 'Midnight Lover' (November).

Plant Picks keeps your garden flowering, rain or shine.