Sunset Northeastern Garden Book

I LOVE this book so much that I ordered one for my father when he wouldn't give mine back. I use it religiously; it's great to see the plants in full color and is an added bonus to have the sections which help organize your garden by priorities (color, foliage, shade, etc). I live in northern New Hampshire and I consult the book during the winter to help make my dreams for the spring and summer come true! As some other reviewers have said, it would have been helpful to get an idea of what the plants would look like down the road.

Although there is not yet a Midwestern Garden Book, Sunset has put out a Midwest Top 10 guide, which includes a zone map for the midwest. As many of these zones extend into the Northeast, the NE Garden Book can be used until we have our own Garden Book.

We actually sell this book in our Northeastern California nursery. The Western Garden Book (truely, THE western garden "Bible") made an ernest but failed attempt to help the coldest climates gardeners of the west with their last edition. We find that for the Truckee-Tahoe region, the Sunset Northeastern Garden Book works best. This book's zones 45 and 44 (northern plains and mts. of no. Vermont) that our customers are able to use to determine hardiness and ultimately, survivability (less wasted space without all the southern California tropicals either). I would suggest this book throughout the Sierras, the Cascades and the Rockies. We have been cold-climate nurserying since 1975 and this is the ONE we offer first. Eric / Villager Nursery, Truckee California

This book has been so completely helpful. So many other books, I look up plants but then find that the won'tt grow in my area. This book is my new gardening bible!

It is not that this book contains anything that is not contained in any quality book, but it is the fact there is SO MUCH information that makes this a must-have book. It is quite a large volume, a complete encyclopedia in fact, and contains information on approximately 6,000 plants, climate zones and absolutely everything you want to know about plants, many familiar ones and several less common. The book is factual, well organized and has nice illustrations. Being from Eastern Canada, it has been difficult to find a top-notch book that sufficently covers our area and climate. This book definitely has it all; from the novice to the expert, you will be impressed.