Georgia Native Plant Guide

20 years ago

Press Release:

Mercer University Press

For Immediate Release

http://www.mupress.org/webpages/books/samuels.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0865548781/

A guide to Georgia native plants

Georgia Native Plant Guide is the first native plant guide that focuses on Georgia. It is not simply a guide to plants that can be found in Georgia, but those native to Georgia. Each species native to the Peach State is listed by its scientific name and given a brief description of its appearance and attributes. For the environmentalist, Georgia Native Plant Guide also provides a county-by-county list of endangered species. The guide is extensive with some chapters by noted botanists.

Samuels educates the reader on what is taking over the land, which plants are headed toward extinction, and which plants are rarely found. Samuels demonstrates that if native gardens were on the rise, more plants would move off the endangered list. A wonderful beginnerÂs guide to anyone wanting a true native garden in Georgia, this book provides illustrations, overviews, and lists to help you grow it with ease.

A beautiful and helpful book, it is for anyone interested in the environment, Georgia, or the natural world around us.

Tina M Samuels was born and raised in Rome, Georgia. She is a member of the Georgia Botanical Society and the Georgia Native Plant Society. She has been married for ten years to Gene and is currently trying to cultivate five acres into a Southern garden. Georgia Native Plant Guide is be her second book.

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Comments (9)

HoneyGum_SugarBush
20 years ago
Well it's about time!
Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to order it. And it's affordable too.
girlgroupgirl
20 years ago
HURRAY! I've been collecting various native plant guides from the surrounding states, and was hoping to get something like this!

YAHOO! Guess what Santa's bringin' along with Allen Armitages' new book!

GGG
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sugarhill
20 years ago
GGG, you're getting Armitage's new book and Native Plants? I'm coming over to your house to read.

Thanks for the info about the new book, tinasam. I've been looking for something like this. You're the author, right?
girlgroupgirl
20 years ago
Let's put it this way Sugarhill, if I DON'T get those two books, it's gonna be a long, cold, lonely Christmas for my man!

:)

GGG
razorback33
20 years ago
I'm surprised that no one has the Georgia Wildflower Book by Betty L. Benson a local author and photographer from Douglasville, entitled Natures Melody, A Guide to Georgia Wildflowers.
Published by Columbus Publications, Columbus, GA in 1994, it contains 226 pages and 320 color photographs, with descriptions, plus Botanical and Local Names. It was published in cooperation with the Garden Clubs of Georgia,Inc. and is probably still available through local garden clubs and federations.
Rb
Iris GW
20 years ago
Razorback, I have that one. It's a beautiful book. I'll be interested to see if Tina's book is a broad range of native plants: flowers to ferns to grasses to shrubs to trees. Amazon doesn't have much information on this new book yet. Tina, is it in a local book store yet?

My favorite though is not a native book, it is the Southern Gardener's Book of Lists. I use that to find a list of potential plants and then research each one in which I'm interested. Of course, I usually pick the native plants, but it helps me get going to go through the lists (which are based on site requirements or desirable characteristic).
tinasam
Original Author
20 years ago
yes I am he author and the book does have trees, shrubs, flowers, ferns, and vines. I am sorry there isn't much info out there yet on it. It was two months behind schedule coming out and I think that most places are waiting till Spring to really promo it.

*My fave too is the Southern Gardeners book of lists* :)
tinasam
Original Author
20 years ago
My book, Georgia Native Plant Guide, has been nominated for the Special Books division of the Creative Nonfiction category in the 42nd annual Georgia Author of the Year awards (http://www.georgiawriters.org/42ndnominees.htm ). Winners will be announced at the dinner and awards ceremony on June 18, 2006. I will keep you posted.

Tina M Samuels
girlgroupgirl
20 years ago
WAY TO GO TINA!!!!

GGG