Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities
Inspiration and practical advice for a fantastic garden. Kim Smith's passion is her garden, a small and densely-packed quarter acre beside her family's seaside home in Gloucester, brimming with every species imaginable and some (including apricots) a few might consider unimaginable. Here she has created a living tapestry of fragrance, foliage, flower and fruit. She is sensitive to the plant's forms, hues, and horticultural demands, and has, by design, established a succession of blooms and a selection of plant materials that reduce the needs for pesticides and herbicides. Any gardener wrestling with the challenges of blight, bugs, poor soil, limited light, and the vagaries of weather will find in these pages both sound advice and practical solutions. But this is intended as more than another how-to book. The author is especially interested in the intangibles a garden provides: the moods and ambiance, the butterflies attracted, the harmonious patterns of color, light, and texture. Her advice is as much about how to visualize a garden, as about particular trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, and annuals. Illustrated in full color with the author's own exquisite drawings, containing twenty-two chapters that illuminate every aspect of garden planning and planting, this book is for gardeners seeking both sensible guidance and extraordinary design ideas.
The Bulb Book
John Weathers's 1911 work is detailed discussion of bulbous plants from all over the world.
Handbook on Pruning Roses
Created by the National Rose Society (England), this 1905 handbook is a concise, practical guide to the art and science of pruning roses.
Welcome Wreaths
Learn how to give a warm welcome at your door by making and hanging these lovely wreaths. Paula Philips' craft book offers the reader a beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide on how to make 19 different fresh, colorful, welcoming door wreaths. A wreath on your front door is a beautiful sign of welcome for your visitors. But, you need not limit your use of wreaths to the Christmas season. There are wreath designs that are appropriate for every holiday and season. Paula Philips will show you how to create these beauties. She will also show you how to make smaller wreaths with fruit and flowers which can be placed on a surface near the wreath, turning them into beautiful centerpieces for your dining table or decorations for your fireplace mantle. You can make a wonderful and wispy grapevine wreath featuring rust and gold flowers, appropriate for every season or a festive and fruity small wreath with fruit spilling out, perfect for the Thanksgiving dinner table. Welcome Wreaths includes photos of each design, step-by-step instructions for wiring and weaving the wreaths, and suggestions for how to make and attach decorations. As the seasons and holidays change, you'll want to change up your wreath. You might not have room to store a dozen wreaths for the year. So, the book shows you quick and easy ways to reuse your basic woven wreath. All you need to do is remove bows, flowers, and other decorations. You then simply replace them with fresh ones. Before you begin, it will simplify your work to gather all supplies in one spot. The book lists details for each design, such as size, colors of silk flowers, stems, leaves, sprays, and bows, and other design elements. Consider making two wreaths, one smaller than the other, and then layering them. The resulting depth of design is pleasing to the eye. Purchase or make a flower garland and lay it on top of the wreath for a fresh spring look. Make your own bows out of burlap, cotton, silk, or ribbon with your choice of colors and patterns. Plastic fruits incorporated into the design help make perfect Thanksgiving wreaths. A tiny bird's nest with eggs will give the perfect touch for a spring wreath. You can buy plastic ones or make them yourself. Wreaths make beautiful gifts. Your friends and relatives will appreciate them and use them to greet people at their front door for years to come. As you go through Paula's book, working on her wreath designs, you will become a master of this fascinating art. You'll gain confidence, knowing you can create any wreath of your design for any occasion.
Silk Florals 101
Silk Florals 101 for All Seasons offers a beautiful array of styles from classic to eclectic to country with designs for every month of the year. Whether you require a striking arrangement for a special holiday or want to create a soft romantic mood, you will find something to please the most discriminating taste.
A History of the Orchid
Describes the intriguing adventures of orchid hunters and the early attempts at orchid identification and classification.
The Chrysanthemum
Both amateur and professional growers will appreciate this comprehensive source of information on the history, propagation, marketing, and exhibition of chrysanthemums.
Practical Floriculture
Peter Henderson's 1892 comprehensive guide covers the growing of all manner of florist-quality plants, for both amateur and professional gardeners, and includes advice on how to become a florist.
Bulbophyllums and Their Allies
This groundbreaking, practical guide for orchid lovers focuses on those species likely to be cultivated, including 375 Bulbophyllum species and 170 related species and hybrids. This is a black-and-white edition.
Garden Lover’s Martha’s Vineyard
In this sequel to her 2007 best-seller A Garden Lover's Cape Cod, one of New England's foremost gardeners photographs and analyzes her favorite public and private gardens on Martha's Vineyard.
Pictorial Guide to Perennials
Pictorial Guide to Perennials features a complete A to Z listing of over 450 popular and new perennials, special sections includes planning, soil preparation, and special uses as well as easy-to-understand cultural information.
Month by Month Gardening in Arizona
Desert gardening presents its own unique set of challenges and knowing what maintenance tasks to perform throughout each month of the year is key to success. This quintessential guide walks you thorough a list of gardening to-dos, telling you exactly what dryland gardens need to look their best, no matter the season. With valuable care tips throughout the book, Arizona gardeners are handed the answers to the region's most common questions. From pruning shrubs and trees to caring for cacti, succulents, and other desert perennials, this month-by-month guide to water-wise landscaping is the perfect handbook for desert homeowners. Easy to use, filled with colorful, descriptive photographs, and written by desert gardening expert Mary Irish, Month-By-Month Gardening in the Deserts of Arizona is like having a professional landscape advisor in the garden with you all year long. The Month-By-Month Gardening series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you'll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year in the xeric landscapes of Arizona and other Southwestern states. Written just for gardeners where you live, you can be confident that the information is right for you. Other Month-By-Month Gardening books in this series include: Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Deep South, New England, Carolinas, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, and others.
The Southern Kitchen Garden
Kitchen gardens, for many years a necessity in rural areas, are now becoming fashionable as more and more homeowners seek to produce vegetables, herbs, fruits, nuts and even cut flowers that they can really use. The central theme of this book will be adapting the historical concept of the kitchen garden to today's landscape, and how to make it attractive as well as utilitarian.
A Garden Lover’s Cape Cod
The foremost authority on Cape Cod gardening photographs and analyzes her favorite gardens, public and private.
Otherwise Normal People
Twice a year America's rose lovers cut the prettiest blossoms off their best plants and travel to the national rose show, where they lovingly groom their precious blooms for hours in a frigid hall in order to contend for the highest honor: the Queen of Show. Doctors. Teachers. Sheet metal mechanics. Lawyers. Truck drivers. Men and women. These are type A gardeners, and for them this is a blood sport. They grow tender roses in the frigid North and disease prone roses in the humid South simply for the challenge. They decorate otherwise lovely yards with paper bags and panty hose to isolate their choice specimens. They traipse through overgrown fields in the worst weather to save antique roses from extinction. Aurelia Scott trails these self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds, Japanese beetles, and the finicky demands of their precious charges. With all the appeal of Word Freak, Otherwise Normal People celebrates the singular satisfaction of cultivating beauty--and, of course, the thrill of victory.
The Art of South Florida Gardening
Gardeners from Key West to Lake Okeechobee and on up the coasts know that gardening advice for the rest of the country just doesn't apply here. South Florida is unique, and The Art of South Florida Gardening is uniquely intended for South Florida gardeners, who have depended on the solid advice in this book since the first edition came out more than a decade ago. Now it has been updated with more helpful facts, tips, and advice for the conservation-conscious gardener of the 21st century, while maintaining the practical, easygoing attitude South Florida gardeners have found so comforting over the years. This book still makes gardening in South Florida inviting and fun, whether you are an old hand or have just moved here and even if you have never before considered getting your hands dirty. Harold's warm, wise voice is always encouraging and enthusiastic, and Coralee's lively engaging prose will have you reading as much for pleasure as for its valuable information.
Coastal Gardening in the Pacific Northwest
Coastal Gardening. It has challenges that no other type of gardening can boast: Salt, wind, and sand to name a few. This book combines necessary information about Pacific Northwest coastal gardening and suggested plants with examples of public gardens in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
The Making of the Alnwick Garden
Ian August was about to retire from his post as Estates Clerk of the Works when the Duchess of Northumberland approached him. She wanted to create a unique and innovative garden for the north-east, a place to be enjoyed by anyone. A long journey later, with many battles and millions invested, Ian and the Duchess have achieved their dream.'Ian, I've had an idea!' the statement that began a seventeen-year battle to build the most exciting contemporary garden in Britain. Ian August was about to retire from his post as Estates Clerk of the Works when the Duchess of Northumberland approached him. She wanted to create a unique garden for the North-East, a place that could be enjoyed by anyone, which broke down traditional design boundaries; a project not for the faint hearted. A long journey later, with many battles and millions invested, Ian and the Duchess have achieved their dream. The Making of the Alnwick Garden is the story of that journey, as told by Ian August, who has stood by the Duchess's side since the beginning. He describes the fight for sponsorship and the struggle to persuade the public that this was a garden for all, not an aristocratic fancy; he charts the efforts they made to find a garden designer who would understand the concept and he tells how the Duchess fought intense criticism from the national press. August captures the dramas and dilemmas of what, at times, seemed like an insurmountable battle.The Garden is a magical space that comprises many different areas. More than half a million visitors come to The Alnwick Garden every year, defying the critics and proving that the ultimate victory went to the people of the North-East. The story of the Garden's creation is a breathtaking history of courage and determination, interwoven with memorable characters who undertook this remarkable feat.
