Shade Gardening with Derek Fell
Shade Gardening with Derek Fell

Author: Derek Fell

Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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This wonderfully readable series by premier gardening writer and photographer Derek Fell presents invaluable information on every element of gardening from design and planting to maintaining and harvesting. Each information-packed volume includes: -- A discussion of Fell's gardening principles, including site evaluation, soil testing and conditioning, selection of appropriate plants, and tips on care and maintenance -- The basics of garden design, with tips on creating striking color harmonies and special theme gardens, complete with sample garden plants that detail effective designs -- An A-to-Z listing of Fell's recommendations for truly superior plants -- each entry includes a full-color photograph, a complete description of the plant, cultivation information and propagation methods, the season of bloom, disease and pest resistance, and the plant's best usesSolid advice from one of the world's foremost gardening authorities and a focus on results that are both beautiful and achievable makes this series perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners alike.

Vertical Gardening
Vertical Gardening

Author: Derek Fell

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1605290831

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Shares methods of growing vegetables, flowers, and fruits vertically with tips on choosing a site, composting, and controlling weeds, pests, and disease.

Encyclopedia of Garden Design & Structure
Encyclopedia of Garden Design & Structure

Author: Derek Fell

Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781554071296

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A ready reference of stimulating garden features from all over the world. Renowned garden designer Derek Fell has compiled more than 800 photographs to create a personal scrapbook of his favorite design features from around the world. Together with his insightful commentary, they provide a wealth of ideas and inspiration for the home gardener. The book features: A-Z listing of more than 100 design categories, from balconies and paths to abstract concepts like silhouettes, framing, and whimsy More than 800 fully captioned, full-color photographs of award-winning gardens Hundreds of practical suggestions for garden planning, planting, and design, and achieving year-round interest. Valuable tips on plant cultivation mingle with garden history and elegant description as Fell guides readers through famed gardens such as Monet's Clos Normand, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and Rome's Villa d'Este, plus private gardens like his own Cedaridge Farm.

Derek Fell's Grow This!
Derek Fell's Grow This!

Author: Derek Fell

Publisher: Rodale Books

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1609618289

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What gardeners want most is a bigger and better return on their investment of time and money—maximum yields and superior flavor for edibles, long-lasting blooms for flowers. Derek Fell's Grow This! features expert advice for choosing and growing the top-performing plants (and avoiding the ones that disappoint). Derek Fell has grown hundreds of varieties and annually visits gardens and test plots across America, so he's qualified to guide gardeners to the best of the best—more than 600 vegetable, flower, herb, and lawn grass all-stars. He offers honest feedback about plant performance, even when it contradicts favorable public opinion or a grower's claims. Seed racks may be filled with ‘Kentucky Wonder' snap beans, but he dismisses that variety as too fibrous and needy and instead recommends ‘Blue Lake' beans for tenderness and high yields. Fell's firsthand experience means the difference between choosing plant winners and losers. Packed with insider evaluations from seedsmen, growers, and nursery retailers that readers won't find elsewhere, Derek Fell's Grow This! explains industry lingo and debunks marketing hype to help gardeners select the best-performing plants for all garden conditions and goals.

Square Foot Gardening
Square Foot Gardening

Author: Mel Bartholomew

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2005-04-02

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781579548568

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A new edition of the classic gardening handbook details a simple yet highly effective gardening system, based on a grid of one-foot by one-foot squares, that produces big yields with less space and with less work than with conventional row gardens. Reissue. 30,000 first printing.

Van Gogh's Gardens
Van Gogh's Gardens

Author: Derek Fell

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-04-12

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0743202333

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Of the passions driving Vincent Van Gogh's extraordinary art, one of the greatest was his abiding preoccupation with flowers, gardens and the natural landscape. Living in poverty, however, he was never able to translate the breathtaking visions on his canvas into an actual garden. Now, thanks to Derek Fell's marvellous images, insightful writing and reverent adherence to Van Gogh's original botanical ideas, Van Gogh's gardens have finally come to brilliant life. Drawing inspiration from his dazzling paintings of sunflowers, irises and Provencal landscapes as well as from the eloquent letters he wrote to his brother and sister about colour harmonies and planting ideas, Fell has lovingly created and photgraphed the living embodiment of Van Gogh's singular reflections on colour and nature. More than 130 original colour photographs show the roots of his ideas in the French landscape today and reveal exactly how those ideas will look in our own backyards, including contemporary gardens that embrace such unconventional, Van Gogh-inspired pairings as geraniums with poppies and heliotrope with roses. The book also showcase twenty of the master's most stunning paintings of landscapes and flowers.

Taylor's 50 Best Perennials for Shade
Taylor's 50 Best Perennials for Shade

Author: Houghton Mifflin Company

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780395873311

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Provides a description of fifty shade perennials and suggests how and where to plant them.

The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright
The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright

Author: Derek Fell

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780711229679

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Best known for his strikingly modern structures, Frank Lloyd Wright was also a highly influential landscape designer. The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright is the first book in full color to focus on Wright’s four most famous residential landscapes: his first home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois; his magnificent 3,000-acre summer home Taliesin, in Wisconsin; his 600-acre winter home Taliesin West, in Arizona; and Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania, the commission that made him world famous. The product of extended visits to properties associated with Wright, as well as extensive interviews with surviving colleagues and students, the book also explores the Japanese and Mayan landscapes that inspired Wright and his appreciation of the stone meeting circles and naturalistic prairie plantings of the great landscape architect Jens Jensen. Planting plans allow readers to create prairie- and desert-style gardens of their very own.

Herb Gardening with Derek Fell
Herb Gardening with Derek Fell

Author: Derek Fell

Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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This wonderfully readable book by premier gardening writer and photographer Derek Fell presents invaluable information on every element of gardening from design and planting to maintaining and harvesting. Full color throughout.