Hidden Gems for Home Landscapes: 70 Magnificent, Low-Maintenance, Resilient Trees and Shrubs

The curious gardener’s and landscaper’s guide to undiscovered, low-maintenance, climate-adaptive, and beautifully decorative trees, and shrubs.

In Hidden Gems for Home Landscapes authors Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano begin with the story of how their passion for plants led them to found Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens 20 years ago, experimenting with planting native and non-native trees and shrubs, collecting seeds from unusual and exciting plants, and seeing how those plants might flourish in their home base of the Catskill Mountains of New York.

The results of their arboretum and botanical garden experiments over the years are a resilient and biodiverse ecosystem, a thriving habitat for wildlife and pollinators, and beautiful plant life wherever you look.

Allyson and Scott celebrate the best decorative landscape plants they grow that are low maintenance, adaptable to shifting climates, and offer multiple types of aesthetic interest, such as attractive flowers, bark, and seedheads at different stages of the plant’s growing season. Alongside beautiful photography of each plant the authors provide:

• Plant description 
• History of cultivation
• Design uses 
• Growth difficulty rating 
• Site and soil conditions 
• Hardiness zones 
• Cultivars
• And, more!