Beginning plant identifying
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Virtus Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 31 Mar 2014 Posts: 20
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 5:37 pm Post subject: Beginning plant identifying |
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Hi there,
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to be asking but thought I would ask anyway. Could anyone recommend a good book or resource for identifying shrubs and trees? Rather then constantly asking people here I'd prefer to read up and try and do it myself.
I have been looking at a couple of books on amazon and its hard to know where to start. I know experience is probably more important, but if anyone could recommend a good reference book and perhaps some sort of guide to identification that they found good that would be great!
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Sive Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1731 Location: Co.Wexford
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Any of the RHS ( Royal Horticultural Society ) books that I have are of very good quality. If they have published any specifically about shrubs and/or trees, I imagine they would be equally good.
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Virtus Rank attained: Hazel Tree

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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Sive, I was actually going to order a couple of those. I found their website to be quite good as well!
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Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3129 Location: Kildare
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Are we not fulfilling your needs here
If its wild flowers of Ireland I would recommend Rodger Philips books, Zoe Devlins book or Webb s Flora.(Technical Book)
For gardening, The garden expert books are good for general stuff and any RHS books The Ato Z or the encyclopedia of of plants and flowers, The readers digest can also be good. After that there are so many books specialising in Herbaceous plants, Grasses, Bamboos and Trees,
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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I have had the rhs gardeners encyclopedia of plants and flowers for nigh on 20 years and it is well laid out and easy to use. It is my first book that I go to even though I have several others. Well thumbed through at this stage. But I digress, I haunt second hand book stores and regularly see that book available for a pittance. Cannot see that there would be that much difference between different editions.
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Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 307 Location: Cork
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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It depends on how much you want to spend really. The RHS A-Z seems to cost half the price it used to on Amazon. When I studied horticulture we used "Name That Plant" by Martin Page.
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