How to create a spectacular container garden!
John Peters and Kimberly Bird from Calloway’s Nursery teach us what plants to use to create an exciting container garden. Don’t forget the thriller, the filler, and the spiller.
Indoor Herb Garden
www.cookinggarden.com has lots of gardening information.
Month by Month Gardening in Texas: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year
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The Month-by-Month? series offer valuable advice on the proper timing of garden maintainance activities for each month. “Month-By-Month? Gardening in Texas” is one of the first titles of the redesigned series from Cool Springs Press. Top features include: 4-color photography and line-drawing illustrations to demonstrate cultural practices Covers all major plant categories Specific advice for every month of the year Updated edition includes text revisions, additional reference materials, and a new design…. More >>
Month by Month Gardening in Texas: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year
The Rock Garden Plant Primer: Easy, Small Plants for Containers, Patios, and the Open Garden
- ISBN13: 9780881929287
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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It’s not necessary to have a traditional rock garden to enjoy rock garden plants. In fact, these colorful, small plants are perfect for the pots, containers, window boxes, and raised beds that are the mainstays of modern gardens.
World-renowned botanist Christopher Grey-Wilson recommends easy-to-grow plants for a variety of garden situations including shade, mixed borders, and patios. Introductory chapters explain how to grow and care for these gardener-friendly plants that are cold-hardy and adaptable. Detailed plant descriptions are based on his personal experience of seeing the plants in the wild and growing them in the garden. Includes excellent photographs to aid in selection and identification…. More >>
The Rock Garden Plant Primer: Easy, Small Plants for Containers, Patios, and the Open Garden
The Nonstop Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs
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With hectic lifestyles and busy schedules, people are finding it more and more appealing to enjoy their leisure time at home rather than packing their bags in search of peaceful retreats. But how can they confidently create a garden retreat? By following Cohen and Benner’s trusted advice and building a nonstop garden, they’ll have more creative planting options, a garden that provides year-round interest, and – most importantly – a yard that requires less maintenance than a traditional perennial border.
The Nonstop Garden gives gardeners all the information they need to create a productive, beautiful garden from the ground up. This easy-to-use guide is split into four main parts: the nuts and bolts of designing a mixed garden, the garden’s main attractions (trees and shrubs), the garden’s supporting cast (bulbs, annuals, edibles, and vines), and finishing touches (ornamentation, containers, and garden structures). The Nonstop Garden also in… More >>
The Nonstop Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs
Marijuana Success Indoors: Garden Tours and Tips
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Marijuana Success Indoors demonstrates the best ways to combine gardening skill with technological savvy to produce the highest quality buds. Collecting the best of Ed Rosenthal’s articles on indoor cultivation, this large-format, colorfully illustrated guide shows how growers have addressed such issues as working in small spaces; supplementing with carbon dioxide; and using lighting and other techniques to maximize quality and yield in any indoor garden…. More >>
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
- ISBN13: 9780375759451
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty years, Eleanor Perényi draws upon her wide-ranging knowledge of gardening lore to create a delightful, witty blend of how-to advice, informed opinion, historical insight, and philosophical musing. There are entries in praise of earthworms and in protest of rock gardens, a treatise on the sexual politics of tending plants, and a paean to the salubrious effect of gardening (see “Longevity”). Twenty years after its initial publication, Green Thoughts remains as much a joy to read as ever.
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Allen Lacy, former gardening columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and the author… More >>
Tips From the Garden Hotline
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Ralph Snodsmith-the original gardening expert on Good Morning America, host of the nationally syndicated Gardener Hotline radio program, and winner of the American Horticultural Society Communications Award-comes to the rescue of every gardener with question and a problem.
“Years of broad public contact have provided Mr. Snodsmith with a special view of home gardeners’ concerns and he serves them all up here, with a chuckle.”–The New York Times
How do I protect my roses through a Minnesota winter? Does my African violet need a lot of light? Are pesticides safe? What do I do with my houseplants when I’m on vacation? On TV and on the radio, gardening expert Ralph Snodsmith has heard thousands of questions from both novice and experienced gardeners. Here are 101 of the most frequently asked, all illustrated with humorous cartoons that clarify the advice. Snodsmith provides information in his characteristic witty and upbeat style, comple… More >>
Modern Tropical Garden Design
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In this richly-illustrated tour of modern tropical gardens, Made Wijaya takes novice gardeners and professionals around the world in search of innovative designs. From South America to the tropical states of the U.S.-including Florida, California and Hawaii-to tropical Asia and tropical Australia, Modern Tropical Garden Design covers a profusion of different environments. The styles of garden design are as various as the terrain covered, and includes gardens by Wijaya and numerous other talented designers.
Modern Tropical Garden Design also explores the myriad of different elements that can be found in the modern tropical garden, including courtyards and patios; pavilions, pergolas and verandas; pavings; water features; pools; walls; plants; colors; furniture; lighting; tropical flower arrangements and art. Incorporating a lively discussion of the work of ten exciting garden visionaries, as well as the work of some early modern masters of garden de… More >>
The Southern Garden
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Southerners have always gardened with great style. In the temperate climate of the region, the garden serves as an extension of a home’s interior and holds a place of supremacy in the southern imagination. From a vast estate in the rolling hills of Virginia to a lush tropical garden in Florida to a working farm in Louisiana, THE SOUTHERN GARDEN features a range of garden styles, both grand and intimate, with breathtaking photography. This book shows how simple lawns have been transformed into flourishing landscapes using water, statuary, trees, and hedges. The author explores how different types of gardens prosper in the various southern climates, and offers essential guidance on designing with flowers. A helpful guide to flowers and plants is also included…. More >>