Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

Illustrations by Vicki Herzfeld Arlein

Lee Reich provides a valuable guide to uncommon fruits and berries, which add an adventurous flavor to any garden. Though names like jujube, juneberry, maypop, and shipova may seem exotic at first glance, these fruits offer ample rewards to the gardener willing to go only slightly off the beaten path at local nurseries. Reliable even in the toughest garden situations, cold-hardy, and pest- and disease-resistant, they are as enticing to the beginner as to the advanced gardener. This expanded sequel to the author's celebrated Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention offers new fruits, new varieties, and new photos and illustrations to entice the reader into an exciting world of garden pleasure.

Media reviews of this book:

"Although this book is a useful how-to, it also provides great armchair reading, for both the clarity of the prose and the intriguing background provided for the selections. ... [Reich] provides us with a fascinating opportunity to bridge the gap between the ordinary and the exotic, with the garden at the conjunction. ... [A] great addition to the gardening bookshelf."

—Allison Tsu, Bloomsbury Review, May 2005

"For those gardeners who, like me, are always searching for something a bit out of the ordinary for both their gardens and their tummies, this book is a gem."

—Rita Pelczar, American Gardener, July/August 2004

"Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden brings forth visions of tempting fruits, enticing aromas and tastes. What gardener can resist such thoughts?"

—Joanne S. Carpender, National Gardener, June 2004

"A superb book to read on this subject."

—George Weigel, Harrisburg Patriot-News, March 13, 2008

"Reich proves that plants slightly off the beaten path are flavorful solutions to tough landscape problems."

—Doreen Howard, Easy-Care Landscaping, October 2006

Customer reviews of this book:

"Chapter after chapter the author of this book suprises me, with complete and rich material augmenting the main topics. I would recomend it to anyone interested in such subjects."

—Thomas P. from Indianapolis, Indiana, June 17, 2007

"Very useful, indeed!"

—Lee B. from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, April 17, 2007

"Lee Reich is very readable and enjoyable!"

—Elizabeth K. from Durham, New Hampshire, February 9, 2007

"I've been searching for a book like this for 25 years. Thanks for the knowledge it imparts!"

—Helen R. from Eureka, California, September 5, 2006

"Excellent — I have been looking for a book like this for some time."

—L. B. from North Bend, Oregon, May 4, 2006

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An excerpt from this book:

It is said that if you order strawberries in a deluxe Parisian restuarant, those strawberries will be very small and very expensive (but of course!), but also very delicious. Such fruits are not scaled-down or poorly grown versions of common, cultivated strawberries, but different species of near wild strawberries: the alpine strawberry or the musk strawberry. Alpine and musk strawberry fruits are expensive not because they are hard to grow, but because the plants are not very productive. This should not preclude growing them in the backyard garden, where flavor is as important as productivity ...

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