Growing Shrubs and Small Trees in Cold Climates

An all-in-one guide designed for northern-tier gardens from coast to coast

Growing Shrubs and Trees in Cold Climates provides northern-tier gardeners from coast to coast with an incredible range of choices, no matter what their skill level.

Part I profiles 50 plant groups best suited to gardens in zones 1 to 5. Each plant has been tested for hardiness over a period of at least 10 years--and has proved hardy to no less than -30 degrees F. Readers will easily be able to select shrubs and trees that produce wonderful fragrant flowers and those that bloom more than once in the spring and summer seasons.

Part 2 covers the basics of growing shrubs and small trees, with special attention on solving problems that occur in cooler climates.

Nancy Rose has an extensive background in growing shrubs and small trees in cold climates. Since 1990 she has worked in the woody plant research program at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Previously she worked with plant collections at the Morton Arboretum outside Chicago. A popular garden writer, she writes a column for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul and contributes articles to several magazines including Northern Gardener and American Nurseryman. Rose has earned degrees in horticulture from the University of Missouri and Ohio State University.

Don Selinger has more than 35 years in the nursery business in Illinois, Indiana, and Minnesota. Since 1973 he has worked for Bailey Nurseries in St. Paul, where he oversees the production of nursery stock distributed wholesale throughout the northern tier of the United States and Canada. Selinger has traveled widely in the United States, Canada, and Europe to seek out new plants for the nursery trade. He speaks frequently at state and national nursery association groups. Selinger received his degree in floriculture and ornamental horticulture from the University of Illinois.

John Whitman is a veteran gardener. He was a grower at Bachman's, the largest retail florist and nursery in the United States. A member of the Garden Writers Association of America, Whitman has written or been a contributing writer and photographer to numerous books and gardening magazines. Whitman is the coauthor of two other books in this series, Growing Perennials in Cold Climates (with Mike Heger) and Growing Roses in Cold Climates (with Jerry Olson).