Gardening for All Seasons

Gardening for All Seasons

Author: Anne Halpin

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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"Gardening for All Seasons" provides both the basic information necessary to create and maintain successful gardens and houseplants and guidance on growing and maintaining flowers during all the seasons of the year.


Container Gardening for All Seasons

Container Gardening for All Seasons

Author: Barbara Wise

Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1610582780

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More than a collection of inspiring container gardening photographs, Container Gardening for All Seasons provides a shopping list of materials and a helpful planting diagram for each of the more than 100 container options. Designed like a recipe book, the book offers even the most novice gardeners a no-fail, easy-to-follow instruction format for each container. Gardeners can choose the recipes by season that fit the sun and shade conditions of their landscape. Author Barbara Wise includes all you need to know to plan, plant, grow and maintain a container garden. Fabulous colorful fall and winter container choices are also included.


A Year Full of Flowers

A Year Full of Flowers

Author: Sarah Raven

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-03-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1526640392

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Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven's style – and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden. A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time. Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that's full of life and colour. Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through winter, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks. This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it's also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life – this book shows you how you can too.


A Garden for All Seasons

A Garden for All Seasons

Author: Reader's Digest

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780895773807

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This new addition to the Reader's Digest gardening line draws from the simple secrets of English gardening technique to help gardeners on this side of the Atlantic achieve a landscape that is beautiful all through the year. Includes step-by-step instructions, checklists of tasks, and a color-coded selection guide. 1,200 color photographs and illustrations.


Beautiful at All Seasons

Beautiful at All Seasons

Author: Elizabeth Lawrence

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2007-02-28

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0822389762

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Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–85) is recognized as one of America’s most important gardeners and garden writers. In 1957, Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer, blending gardening lore and horticultural expertise gained from her own gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina, and from her many gardener friends. This book presents 132 of her beloved columns. Never before published in book form, they were chosen from the more than 700 pieces that she wrote for the Observer over fourteen years. Lawrence exchanged plants and gardening tips with everyone from southern “farm ladies” trading bulbs in garden bulletins to prominent regional gardeners. She corresponded with nursery owners, everyday backyard gardeners, and literary luminaries such as Katharine White and Eudora Welty. Her books, including A Southern Garden, The Little Bulbs, and Gardens in Winter, inspired several generations of gardeners in the South and beyond. The columns in this volume cover specific plants, such as sweet peas, hellebores, peonies, and the bamboo growing outside her living-room window, as well as broader topics including the usefulness of vines, the importance of daily pruning, and organic gardening. Like all of Lawrence’s writing, these columns are peppered with references to conversations with neighbors and quotations from poetry, mythology, and correspondence. They brim with knowledge gained from a lifetime of experimenting in her gardens, from her visits to other gardens, and from her extensive reading. Lawrence once wrote, “Dirty fingernails are not the only requirement for growing plants. One must be as willing to study as to dig, for a knowledge of plants is acquired as much from books as from experience.” As inspiring today as when they first appeared in the Charlotte Observer, the columns collected in Beautiful at All Seasons showcase not only Lawrence’s vast knowledge but also her intimate, conversational writing style and her lifelong celebration of gardens and gardening.


Plants for All Seasons

Plants for All Seasons

Author: Ursula Buchan

Publisher: Miller/Mitchell Beazley

Published: 1999-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781840000511

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Creating a garden that has colour, beauty and architectural interest year-round is far easier than many gardeners believe. The secret is to choose versatile plants and to appreciate that brilliant autumn and winter foliage, stems and berries can create just as stunning an effect as spring and summer flowers.


The Nitty-Gritty Gardening Book

The Nitty-Gritty Gardening Book

Author: Kari Cornell

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1467726478

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Grow your own fruits, vegetables, and flowers! Become a gardener in any season with these fun and easy projects. You don't even need a garden space--many of these activities can be done by planting in containers to set on a porch or a patio or even in a window. Try your hand at growing potatoes and strawberries. Plant bright flowers that attract butterflies, birds, and bees. Learn how to get daffodils to bloom in the winter! You can even make your own compost. Colorful photographs and simple step-by-step drawings make each project easy to follow for gardening success. Ready to get your hands dirty and your garden growing?


Four-Season Harvest

Four-Season Harvest

Author: Eliot Coleman

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 160358207X

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"Eliot is the reason I’m cooking. . . . I’ve followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons."—Dan Barber, chef "There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman."—Civil Eats Learn season-extending techniques and eat the best food—garden fresh and chemical free—all year long, with little effort or expense. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Inside, you’ll also learn: Composting techniques Simple Mineral Amendments Planning and preparing your garden site Seeds for four seasons How to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhouses How to cope with snow How to create a root cellar and other storage techniques And much, much more! Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine. This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter. "The man, the farmer, the legend, is Eliot Coleman."—The Atlantic To learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman's website www.fourseasonfarm.com.


Complete Guide to Gardening

Complete Guide to Gardening

Author:

Publisher: David & Charles Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780276429255

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The information you need, when you need it - season by season, throughout the year. Say goodbye to dreary winter gardens and straggly late summer blooms. Create a garden that looks stunning in every season with this gloriously illustrated book, which is packed with advice on everything from flowers, shrubs and trees to fruit, vegetables, herbs, lawns and water gardens. This season-by-season gardening book contains a wealth of practical advice and inspirational ideas to guarantee success in the garden. Find out when to plant new hedges, how to keep your container plants alive while you're away on a summer holiday, how to protect delicate blossoms from frost, and much, much more. There's also lots of problem-solving advice, from keeping slugs at bay to dealing with moss. The book is organised by season and in each section you'll find a plant selector, describing the plants which are at their best during the season, arranged by colour and type, and a practical diary detailing the jobs that need doing at each time of year to keep your garden in tip top condition.In addition a section on gardening basics helps you to select the best plants for different soils and sites, as well as giving helpful information on tools and equipment, watering, feeding and compost. Interspersed throughout the book are 30 features on particular plants and garden tasks relevant to each season, for example, planting a border, creating a vegetable plot or watering a patio. Whether you want a scented haven, a prolific vegetable garden, a productive greenhouse or a vibrant colourful display, the Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Gardening - Season by Season gives you the professional advice you need to plan the shape, colour and fragrance of your garden successfully all the year round.


Four-Season Food Gardening

Four-Season Food Gardening

Author: Misilla dela Llana

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 076037273X

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Four-Season Food Gardening shows you how to grow edible plants year-round by using season extenders like cold frames and by planting the best perennial vegetables and fruits side by side with your tomatoes and peppers.