Based on the author's 30-year study with over 50,000 plants, "The Complete Book of Cacti and Succulents" offers a photographic A-Z which profiles more than 300 plants, with practical advice for propagating and cultivating them and imaginative ideas for display. The expert advice, supported by step-by-step photographs, covers subjects ranging from ...
Tracy DiSabato-Aust has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her first book - "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden" - is Timber's best-selling title and widely considered the bible of perennial maintenance. "50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants" is packed with useful tips, practical hints, and Tracy's own gardening ...
Completely revised, this popular edition includes more than 2,000 new plant entries, plus improved climate zones. "Sunset Western Garden Book" offers hundreds of pages of tips, advice, and information on the latest tools and gear.
With over 15,000 entries and updated from the original "A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants"Qwhich sold over 190,000 copiesQthis is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative garden plant guide ever published. Includes hundreds of new plants and photos. 0-7566-0616-0$80.00 / DK Publishing, Inc.
Whether youre starting from the ground up or rethinking your existing outdoor living areas, youll find plenty of inspiration in Big Book of Garden Designs. With over 120 garden plans designed to fit every imaginable landscape situation, this new volume guides you through the issues that perplex anyone planning a garden. Such as, which plants are ...
From agaves to ice plants, and from sedums to sempervivums, hardy succulent plants bring beauty, versatility, and intrigue to perennial gardens in every hardiness zone. No longer relegated to desert climates, succulents offer extraordinary color, texture, durability, and ease of care. It's no wonder succulents are some of the hottest plants to ...
The green roof industry is booming and the technology changing fast as professionals respond to the unique challenges of each new implementation. In this comprehensively updated, fully revised edition of their authoritative reference, Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury reveal the very latest techniques, materials, and plants, and showcase some ...
This extensive reference book lists hundreds of woody landscape plants. Each entry includes identification characteristics related to leaves, buds, and stems. Most are accompanied by an illustration of the leaf or branch. Additional facts about each plant are available on topics such as flowers and/or fruits, diseases and insects, landscape value, ...
This gardening guide looks at the possibilities of using grass for decorative effect, not just in lawns and meadows, but also in borders, as background shrubs to enhance other plants and as a means of creating dramatic contrasts. The versatility of grass as a foliage plant is increasingly being realized with the popularity of naturalistic planting ...
What makes a true garden out of a collection of flowering plants are the ferns, mosses, and grasses that are the verdant canvas on which nature paints its portraits. With this new volume, award-winning author Cullina completes the set of stunning books on native North American plants for the garden, 320 pp.
Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. In this lively book, the authors describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness and size and include mail-order sources, tips on plant swaps, and more. 82 color photos.
Ornamental grasses surpass all other garden plants in their luminous qualities. Their colors are softly sophisticated, varied, and subtle. They include a striking array of textures, forms, sizes, and flowering times and have appeal in the garden throughout the year. Grasses' ethereal quality, sound, and movement make them ideal choices for ...
This is the first comprehensive book to aid the gardener in making a start with native plants. It takes the gardener through the beginning steps of identifying native plants, evaluating them in relation to conventional garden materials, and learning detailed techniques of propagation and culture. Annuals, perennials (including ferns), bulbs, ...
Now available again in paperback is the popular compact edition of this classic--one of the most ambitious and successful books on garden flora ever published, with more than 125,000 copies sold! 2,048 full-color photographs.
This vast and comprehensive volume brings together an incredible 15,000 garden plants, along with 6000 color illustrations. With a detailed description of each plant (each listed alphabetically under its proper botanical name) that includes not only planting and maintenance information but its place of origin and the pests that might infest it, ...
Simply the definitive full-color reference to the horticulture of North America, "AHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers" contains more than 8,000 plant references, 4,250 photographs, and practical advice on everything from cultivation and pests to plant selection and identification.
Succulent plants offer dazzling possibilities for garden design and require only minimal maintenance to remain lush and alluring year round. Featuring the work of more than 50 professional garden designers and creative homeowners, this complete design compendium is as practical as it is inspirational. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs ...
Some Like It Hot Flowers That Thrive in Hot Humid Weather P. J. Gartin Some Like it Hot: Flowers That Thrive in Hot Humid Weather is the ultimate guide for Southern gardeners who dream of colorful, continuously blooming annuals and perennials in peaceful garden settings. For those who live in the hot and humid Southeast, a profusion of ...
Every year, before they decide to take defensive action, vulnerable homeowners suffer expensive damage as deer and various other pesky animals devour their gardens and landscape plants. "Deer-Resistant Landscaping" arms homeowners with the proven strategies they need to repel and combat deer and 21 other troubling pests, from rabbits and squirrels ...
Award-winning Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants is now available in a softcover edition. Logee's Greenhouses is renowned worldwide as a leader in the horticultural industry, and since 1892 has been growing and selling over a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use. ...
For undergraduate courses in Arboriculture; Landscape Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Management, or Landscape Construction; Park Management, Parks and Grounds Maintenance, Park & Recreation Administration, Nursery Management; and Urban Forestry. Regarded by many as an irreplaceable reference tool, this text describes the ...
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