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Informative and entertaining, this book will stimulate experimentation and encourage gardeners to review and improve their current gardening practices. Once gardeners learn how plants are constructed, it is easier to envision how they ll grow and flourish. An understanding of the structure behind good, …
Contributed by amazon 06.04. 2007 10:12:27 (13143 readers) |
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Desirable Trees for the Midwest: 50 for the Home Landscape and Larger Properties Trees are the most important element in any well-designed landscape. In his book, Scott Zanon leads readers to fifty of his personal favorites and helps them make the best decisions based on beauty, hardiness, site location, …
Contributed by amazon 22.09. 2016 14:13:15 (11602 readers) Match on Article's text |
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The second in a series of comprehensive guides to flowering plants and gardening in hot and humid climates …
Contributed by amazon 28.08. 2007 12:32:10 (12035 readers) Match on Article's text |
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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 (9931 readers) Match on Article's text |
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Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts | Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants provides a combination of observations, expertise and master photographs. This new book is a resource that gardeners will use again and again for its thoroughness, accessibility and reliability. …
Contributed by amazon 20.04. 2007 08:37:06 (14938 readers) Match on Article's text |
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Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intelligence, …
Contributed by amazon 28.10. 2007 08:03:43 (10736 readers) Match on Article's text |
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Anyone can have a lawn even greener than their neighbors’ envy with this definitive guide to improving the attractiveness of grass from seed to sod, in all seasons. Jerry Baker’s proven tips, tricks, and tonics cover problems from mowing and mole damage to drought or downpour. Regular cabinet items …
Contributed by amazon 11.07. 2007 12:31:01 (12962 readers) Match on Article's text |
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As gardeners become increasingly concerned with both drought and water conservation, plants that love the sun are an attractive option. From white flowering hawthorns to richly scented wisteria, they come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, with endless potential for producing stunning planting schemes. …
Contributed by amazon 20.04. 2008 21:47:30 (14049 readers) Match on Article's text |
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Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs | The Well-Designed Mixed Garden is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants of all kinds (hence the mixed garden of the title), it reflects decades of professional experience and …
Contributed by amazon 04.04. 2007 10:35:21 (15060 readers) Match on Article's text |
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W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History | The Houston area offers an abundance of resources and activities for gardeners and garden lovers, if people only know where to look: Love roses? Go to the Garden Center in Hermann Park. Want fresh vegetables? Pay in advance for a weekly supply at Central City Co-op. …
Contributed by amazon 21.01. 2008 08:40:20 (15165 readers) Match on Article's text |
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It is unlikely that the basics of pruning have ever before been assembled so thoroughly or comprehensively than in Lee Reich s The Pruning Book. With clear prose and generous diagrams and photographs, he takes the angst out of pruning for the beginning or experienced gardener. Included are all the basics …
Contributed by amazon 30.03. 2007 11:42:17 (15563 readers) Match on Article's text |