A professional horticulturist provides tips for maintaining a healthy, happy perennial garden, including how to prepare the soil, control pests and diseases, and choose plants, plus sage directions for dead-heading, pinching back, and pruning. An encyclopedia of perennials is also included, along with a calendar showing when to do what. ...
Includes more than 2,000 plants and animals. Spanning the land from Florida to Alaska, it embraces field, forest and prairie. Includes color-coded name tabs for all 16 sections, habitat guides, maps and 2000 color portraits (1 for every plant and animal).
Inspired by a short, bizarre newspaper article, journalist Susan Orlean embarks on an amusing two-year journey to understand a passionate, yet somehow principled crook and one of his ephemeral obsessions--wild orchids. Her profile of John Laroche was the basis for the critically acclaimed film, ADAPTATION (2003), directed by Spike Jonze, and ...
"Perennial Combinations" features plant medleys that bring colour, texture, and excitement to the garden in every season. The book features 130 of the best perennial combinations with photographs of each grouping, along with a numbered photo key and plant list. Each grouping features just two to six plants; gardeners can plant the combinations as ...
This work is packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color. Color your world with orchids. Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren't they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, ...
Go behind the scenes in Tasha Tudor's 19th-century gardens, her "paradise on earth." Martin's text and Brown's photos explore gardens filled not only with flowers and vegetables but with a menagerie of corgis, Nubian goats, fantail doves, exotic finches, cockatiels, nightingales, and parrots.
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 ...
From the producers of the bestselling "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids" (Timber Press, 1992) comes the definitive reference for orchid enthusiasts. More than 1500 orchids are described in full detail, with over 1500 stunning photographs showing plants in their native habitats wherever possible. Listed alphabetically by botanical name, each ...
This trustworthy guide and tour through the jungle of perennials that are available from nurseries, garden centers, and mail-order sources describes the 150 greatest, most beautiful, longest-flowering, easiest to care for "all star" perennials. A Perennials Plant Finder helps readers pinpoint the perfect plants for each specific site in a garden. ...
This handsome reference, now available in paperback, is sure to delight gardeners. Encompassing a wide spectrum of orchid genera, more than 1,100 species and hybrids commonly in cultivation are detailed.
The perfect tree-ripe apple is as tempting today as it was in the day of Adam and Eve. Now every gardener can grow their temptations with the help of this in-depth guide. Over 80 charts and illustrations will lead the novice through selecting, planting, and caring for the young fruit tree. For the more experienced gardener, there are tips on ...
In his first book in more than ten years, David Austin introduces 40 recently developed varieties of English roses, in addition to 40 of his best-loved and time-tested favorites. Beautiful photographic portraits of each are complimented by notes on attributes, history, and special requirements for growing in the garden.
Eric Hansen writes entertainingly and often hilariously about the sinister world of orchid raising--a $9 billion business worldwide. Specifically, he explores the black market in rare and endangered plants that are smuggled out of ecologically precarious areas and sold to enthusiasts at inflated prices. Hansen's book, full of fascinating stories ...
A hands-on guide to growing perennials with an easy-to-use chart of details on culture, bloom color, and use for over 300 plants. Includes keys for successful perennial gardening, creating a garden that blooms in all seasons, turning any property into a living work of art, and more. 81 color photographs; 58 illustrations.
Our grandparents did it. And their grandparents before them. In fact, saving seeds is as old as gardening itself. Why then is it such a neglected component of gardening today? Many say that because seeds from catologs are so cheap we don't need to save our own. Have you figured out lately what you spend on seeds each year to grow the same plant? ...
FAST FLOWER ARRANGING can give you stunning displays in minutes! Jane Packer simplifies the secrets behind successful flower arrangements and shows you how to make a dramatic impression with over 130 fresh flower arrangement possibilities. Photographic sequences help you create five-minute displays, special decorative effects, or quick gift ...
One of every seven flowering plants on the Earth is an orchid. In the United States, the largest society devoted to a single plant is the American Orchid Society, with 29,000 members. Research biologist and full-time garden writer Judy White now brings her expertise--and her stunning photographs--to this much needed book for the expanding world of ...
"Rose growers will find advice that is abundant and extremely helpful." --Bill Marken, eHow.com "Easy solutions ...answers to all my puzzling questions." --Jan Weverka, The Rose Garden Newsletter Praise for Roses For Dummies"One of my favorite books on roses." ?Joan Franson, American Rose "Thorough, easy-to-read ...well-researched and well ...
For introductory courses in Turfgrass Management, Turfgrass Pest Management, and Turfgrass Cultural Systems. Rich with illustrations, Turfgrass Management, 8e is regarded for its thorough coverage of turfgrass science and technology. While covering the important features of turfgrass systems, interactions, and management, this book attempts to ...
America's Garden Book There are very few garden books that have lasted like America's Garden Book - and with good reason. Since its first edition in 1939, the book has been specifically geared to North American backyard, do-it-yourself gardeners and their particular needs. The Plants More than 3,000 plant recommendations are listed throughout the ...
This book presents vivid portraits of blosso ms favoured through the ages, drawing on botanical, mytholog ical, and historical sources worldwide. It is a delightful e xploration of the language and lore of nature''s most beautif ul gifts, the flowers. '
At last, a perennial encyclopedia that gardeners can really use--not just look at. It presents 161 major perennial entries, plus hundreds of species and cultivars, all described in detail in the encyclopedia section with complete growing and landscaping information. Charts and tables provide current information on every aspect of perennial ...
Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) wrote mysteries and children's books, but he was also an avid gardener, and his eccentrically entertaining gardening books are classics. This volume is about his garden at Sudbrook Cottage in Surrey.
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