Foliage Other / Books Plant foliage brings drama and structure to the garden with color, shape, and texture all its own. Bright, cheerful flowers may have beauty-pageant appeal that gets noticed by passers-by, but where would all those pretty floral faces be without the stalwart presence of foliage? Every garden benefits … Contributed by amazon 09.07. 2007 10:52:50 (8238 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Living Systems Other / Books Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture | The use of innovative new materials is an important trend in landscape architecture today. These materials include biodegradable geotextiles, super-absorbent polymers, and plants that react to changing soil conditions. Water is a major … Contributed by amazon 07.07. 2007 12:00:46 (15288 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Dream Plants for the Natural Garden Other / Books Timber Press has previously published two critically acclaimed and bestselling books by Piet Oudolf, the influential Dutch landscape designer: Gardening with Grasses (with Michael King) and Designing with Plants (with Noël Kingsbury). This new collaboration with fellow Dutch plantsman Henk Gerritsen … Contributed by amazon 08.04. 2007 09:46:41 (13421 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Gardening with Clematis Other / Books Design and Cultivation | Clematis are among the more versatile and diverse plants for any garden; few flowers can fill so many garden niches, from specimen plants to dwarf perennials, or container selections to multistory vines. Wherever they are found, their blooms never fail to induce rapture and awe. … Contributed by amazon 06.04. 2007 10:31:05 (10065 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Geranium - Cranesbill Plants / Perennials Musical theatre buffs will know, but for those of you who don’t, this line comes from a song entitled June is Bustin’ Out All Over! from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. This piece of musical history is set in Maine, USA and the song refers the stirring and thrilling arrival of summer … Contributed by pph 12.06. 2016 09:53:27 (14882 readers) Match on Article's text | |
The Jade Garden Other / Books New and Notable Plants from Asia | The Jade Garden is an authoritative guide to 130 of the most fascinating yet little-known ornamental trees, shrubs, and perennials from the green mantle of Asia. Based on detailed research and observation at one of the largest and oldest collections of Asian plants … Contributed by amazon 11.04. 2007 10:30:51 (14973 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Design and Landscape for People Other / Books New Approaches to Renewal | The new community planning: invaluable strategies for creative rebuilding and renovating from around the world. For many years planning was something done in the name of progress by distant committees with the abstract aim of tidying boundaries and controlling growth. In the … Contributed by amazon 21.10. 2007 11:53:58 (11425 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Planting the Natural Garden Other / Books Following on the success of Designing with Plants and Dream Plants for the Natural Garden, Piet Oudolf s landmark first book (co-authored by Henk Gerritsen), is now available in English. Thoroughly updated and revised, including several new chapters and many new photographs, it provides the definitive … Contributed by amazon 10.04. 2007 10:20:19 (14479 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Home Gardener's Trees & Shrubs Other / Books Home Gardener s Trees & Shrubs: Selecting, planting, improving and maintaining trees and shrubs in the garden (Home Gardener s Specialist Guide) Home Gardener s Trees & Shrubs is the essential guide to selecting, planting, improving and maintaining trees and shrubs in the garden. No matter what … Contributed by amazon 10.09. 2016 09:33:26 (10691 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Ilex x meserveae 'Blue Angel'® - blue holly, Meserve holly Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Blue Angel ® is a favourite female variety of blue hollies. It flowers abundantly in the spring and fruits are born in the autumn. They are bright red, shiny berries that remain on the plant until early to mid spring. It needs a male pollinator e.g. Blue Prince®. Leaves are very glossy, larger than … Contributed by havlis 02.04. 2008 14:21:51 (43950 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Ilex x meserveae 'Heckenstar'® - blue holly Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Castle Wall™ | Heckenstar® is quite a novelty from Germany, bred by Hans Hachmann and patented only in 1998. It is a cross ilex aquifolium „Pyramidalis“ and ilex x meserveae „Blue Prince“®. The result is a strictly upright growing, very hardy, evergreen shrub. Outside Europe it is distributed … Contributed by havlis 08.04. 2008 08:34:47 (64700 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Ilex x meserveae 'Blue Princess' - blue holly, Meserve holly Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Blue Princess is probably the most popular female variety of blue hollies. It flowers abundantly in the spring and fruits are born in the autumn. They are bright red, shiny berries that remain on the plant until early to mid spring. To produce fruits it needs a male pollinator e.g. Blue Prince® or Casanova. … Contributed by havlis 21.02. 2008 08:56:49 (62859 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Protea Other / Books Protea: A Guide to Cultivated Species and Varieties The proteas (Proteaceae) are a large and ancient plant family of Gondwana origins with an impressive diversity of flower and form, and an intriguing distribution pattern throughout mainly the Southern Hemisphere. In his spectacular photography, Lewis … Contributed by amazon 12.10. 2016 11:11:55 (17207 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Ilex x meserveae 'Casanova' - blue holly, Meserve holly Plants / Evergreen Shrubs We are always happy to hear about any success as far as increasing plants hardiness. And when it happens and a new plant variety is hardy and at the same time beautiful we are lost for words. Casanova is the one that left us speechless. It is a brand new variety that was only in 2006 introduced at the … Contributed by havlis 08.04. 2008 08:24:57 (27529 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Ilex x meserveae 'Mesgolg' GOLDEN GIRL ® - blue holly, Meserve holly Plants / Evergreen Shrubs GOLDEN GIRL ® is probably the first ever patented holly with yellow berries in the world, US plant patent 7652 from 1990, as a cross between ilex aquifolium ´Fructa Lutea´and ilex rugosa. Yellow fruits are an awesome feature because it never happened with any other blue holly before. And it has at … Contributed by havlis 20.02. 2008 09:22:17 (38916 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Orchid Fever Other / Books A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy | At first blush, the subtitle of intrepid traveler Eric Hansen s floral account might seem, well, hyperbolic. After taking this whirlwind tour of the hidden world of rare orchid collectors, the reader will find the words well chosen. Hansen invites us into … Contributed by amazon 25.04. 2007 21:56:30 (17355 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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