The New Ontario Gardener - Softcover

Since its first printing ten years ago, The Ontario Gardener has been an indispensable reference. This revision adds new techniques and information, descriptions of many new plants that have become available in the last few years and new chapters on rock and container gardening. Author Trevor Cole, former curator of the Dominion Arboretum in Ottawa and veteran instructor of home landscaping courses, provides crucial information on hardiness (including a zone map), plant size, flowering time, and shade tolerance, while offering friendly and helpful advice based on nearly thirty five years of experience of gardening in Ontario. Information is presented in a clear and orderly manner, featuring illustrated instructions, garden plan layouts, suggested readings and 40 pages of colour photographs. Whether you are looking for inspiration or you just need help in executing your own gardening plans, The New Ontario Gardener will serve as an excellent guide and reference book.

Trevor Cole was trained in horticulture in England. He graduated from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1960, and after several years gaining nursery experience, he emigrated to Canada in 1967. He started working as a horticultural technician engaged in the evaluation of native plants to cultivation, became assistant curator in charge of alpine and herbaceous plants, and was appointed Curator of the Dominion Arboretum in 1972. Trevor retired from this post in 1995.

Trevor lectures widely and has had a regular column in the Ottawa Citizen for seven years. He is the main horticultural consultant for Reader's Digest Canada and was Canadian Editor-in-Chief for their Practical Guide to Gardening in Canada, the A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, and the recently released New Illustrated Guide to Gardening.

Trevor lives in Kinburn, Ontario, near Ottawa.