What do you do when a young moose calf wants to dine on your freshly planted Lady's Mantle for lunch? What plants can handle a summer of nearly endless sun? How do you harness the wild beauty of the north for your own backyard? There's a Moose in My Garden is the first book to tackle these questions and more with practical, user-friendly advice from an award-winning gardener. Adams provides helpful tips for Far Northern gardeners on how to design and implement successful landscape environments. The book outlines the entire planning and planting process, covering such aspects as handling low-angled sun, soft light, expansive vistas, and a cool climate.
A guide to growing and using vegetables and herbs includes valuable tips on garden construction, gardening techniques, harvesting, and cooking techniques.
From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: “Has the makings of an American classic.” —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. “Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
This selection of letters sent by Peter Collinson between 1725 and 1768 includes letters sent to Albrecht von Haller, Alexander Colden, Arthur Dobbs, Benjamin Cook, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Gale, Benjamin Smithurst, Cadwallader Colden, Carl Linnaeus, Carlo Allioni, Caspar Wettstein, Charles Lennox (3rd Duke of Richmond), Charles Lyttelton (Bishop of Carlisle), Charles Wager, Christopher Jacob Trew, Edward Cave, Edward Wright, Emmanuel Mendes Da Costa, George Parker (2nd Earl Macclesfield), Gregory Demidoff, Henrietta Maria Goldsborough, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Henry Baker, Henry Clinton (9th Earl of Lincoln), Henry Fox (1st Baron Holland), Henry Hollyday, Jacob Theodore Klein, James Alexander, Jared Eliot, John Ambrose Beurer, John Bartram, John Blackburne, John Canton, John Custis, John Ellis, John Frederick Gronovius, John Hawkesworth, John Jacob Dillenius, John Kearsley, John Penn, John Player, John Russell (4th Duke of Bedford), John Stuart (3rd Earl of Bute), Joseph Breintnall, Joseph Hobson, Martin Folkes, Mary Collinson, Mary Lennox (Duchess of Richmond), Michael and Mary Russell, Mr. Leigh at Totridge, Peter Simon Pallas, Peter Templeman, Peter Thompson, Philip Southcote, Pieter Camper, Richard Richardson, Richard Walker, Samuel Brewer, Samuel Eveleigh, Hans Sloane, Thomas Birch, Thomas Clayton, Thomas Hay (8th Earl of Kinnoull), Thomas Pelham-Holles (1st Duke of Newcastle), Thomas Story, William Byrd II, William Pitt, William Villiers (3rd Earl of Jersey), and William Watson.
A cold climate is no excuse for a dull, colorless garden. The key is knowing the right plants that will survive and thrive in even the chilliest environments. Who better to guide gardeners than an expert from the far north? Award-winning designer and Alaska gardener Brenda Adams has spent decades searching for exceptional plants that flourish in wintery climates. In Cool Plants for Cold Climates, she presents vivid and detailed portraits of the best and most beautiful of the bunch. When Adams moved from the warm Southwest to Alaska, she found herself in a different gardening world, with few guides on how to approach this new ecosystem. Now, more than twenty-five years later, she shares the secrets gained from her years of gardening experiments as well as bountiful advice from friends and local nurseries. She explains how to evaluate a plant, balancing its artistic attributes with its more utilitarian ones, as well as how to evaluate your space and soil. Adams then takes you into the nursery, offering guidance on how to pick the best of the best. Finally, she offers a detailed look at a wide variety of wonderful plants, highlighting those that offer overall beauty, are especially easy to care for, and solidly hardy. With more than three hundred vivid pictures of both individual plants and full gardens, Adams proves that there is a bounty of plants, in a rainbow of colors, waiting to brighten up your space.
Put the power of a garden planning pro to work for you! Northern Garden Symphony offers explanations and illustrations of the sequential blooms of ornamental perennials as a tool for garden design. The idea of sequential blooming, Fairbanks-famous author Cyndie Warbelow explains, is similar to the workings of a musical symphony, in which at least a portion of its stunning constituent plants is blooming at all times, even though they are not all blooming together. Given that perennial plants bloom for limited and specific periods of time during the growing season, Warbelow notes, it is crucial that a garden be designed with sequential blooming in mind. Yet this concept can often overwhelm and discourage gardeners. Using narrative, figures, photographs, and a groundbreaking set of layout charts that can aid even the most experienced horticulturist in the process of flower garden planning, Northern Garden Symphony gives gardeners the tools they need to be a successful northern perennial gardener.
There is no such thing as a perfect dog or a perfect human. There is perfect love that can transcend species. Come along as Margaret Ludwig shares her journey through life made better by her pack of five unique dogs.
Jake hopes to see a moose when he and his father go to an island in Maine to observe the birds and animals, but his father insists no moose live there-- or do they?
An Alaska family celebrates Hanukkah with a stubborn moose in their backyard and the Northern Lights as the best-ever menorah. Hanukkah in Alaska is unlike anywhere else. Snow piles up over the windows. Daylight is only five hours long. And one girl finds a moose camped out in her backyard, right near her favorite blue swing. She tries everything to lure it away: apples, carrots, even cookies. But it just keeps eating more tree! It's not until the last night of Hanukkah that a familiar Jewish holiday tradition provides the perfect—and surprising—solution.
