Dirr

Dirr is the author of 12 books and more than 300 scientific and popular articles and papers, including “Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia,” and “Dirr’s Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation.”

Shrub enthusiasts, mark your calendar: Dirr at MoBot 4/25 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

One of my most dearly-beloved books on the horticulture shelf is The Manual of Woody Landscape Plants and Shrubs by Michael Dirr, but reading it all the way through?

Giving Up Roger Sutton 2009

“Advances from Woody Plant Breeding from a Garden Perspective,” lecture and book signing by renowned horticulturist Dr. Michael A. Dirr, professor at the University of Georgia.

Shrub enthusiasts, mark your calendar: Dirr at MoBot 4/25 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

Shrub enthusiasts, mark your calendar: Dirr at MoBot 4/25

Rose news from MoBot « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

Shrub enthusiasts, mark your calendar: Dirr at MoBot 4/25

Shrub enthusiasts, mark your calendar: Dirr at MoBot 4/25 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

Shrub enthusiasts, mark your calendar: Dirr at MoBot 4/25

Epimedium ‘Orange Queen’ — put it on your shopping list « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

A lot of taxonomy, though ... to quote Michael Dirr, "Alas, if I had nothing to do but split taxonomic hairs, I'd have myself bound and shelved in the archives."

So now will I have to read it? It's not like they did. Roger Sutton 2007

Dirr sent the cuttings to Minnesota to carry on the propagation.

About Those Azaleas-My Signature Plants « Fairegarden 2009

It derives itself from Dirr and Aydur, without, however, knowing aught beyond the ancestral names, and is twitted with paganism by its enemies.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

According to some, Dirr was the father of Aydur; others make Dirr (it has been written Tir and Durr) to have been the name of the Galla family into which Shaykh Ishak married.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855