Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths Warm-Climate Plants for Cooler Areas

Dave Francko is chair of the Department of Botany at Miami University in Ohio. His academic specialty is aquatic plants. He is co-investigator on the university's Hardy Palm Project, and for many years he has experimented with warm-climate plants in his own gardens. Francko's findings have been published in scientific journals and presented at national and international conferences. As part of a network of adventurous gardeners living in cooler regions of the world, Francko refuses to accept the common wisdom that "Palms won't grow here."Francko, David A. is the author of 'Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths Warm-Climate Plants for Cooler Areas' with ISBN 9780881925753 and ISBN 0881925756.