Previously illustrated with black and white photographs, this reference now provides professionals with a colourful guide to the production of commercial foliage crops. Featuring updated and expanded information, including cultural changes, new technological advances, and eight new foliage crops, the guide now covers over 70 species of foliage appropriate to commercial environments - anthuriums, bromeliads, ferns, bamboos, birds-of-paradise, and African violets. In addition to exploring each plant's natural habitat, varieties, and propagation, this reference also counsels growers on uses, nutrition, pests, disorders, interior care, and the most common problems affecting these types of foliage. It features tables that also list leaf analysis rating standards for nutrients for many of the crops discussed.

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"I have been waiting for a book like this for 20 years!" -- Steve Yates, Fancy Flora"