Deep South Month-by-Month Gardening
Author: Nellie Neal
Publisher:
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1591865859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat to do each month to have a beautiful garden all year.
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Questions and Answers for Deep South Gardeners
Author: Nellie Neal
Publisher: B. B.Mackey Books
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781893443174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQ & A for Deep South Gardeners, Second Edition, by Nellie Neal Gardeners in the Deep South are faced with everything from overgrown kudzu to extreme weather and unpredictable seasons. Conditions here don't bear much resemblance to those described in most other garden books. But more help for Deep South gardeners is here, with Nellie Neal's book of real questions from gardeners who call her on her live radio show, and their answers, in a new edition. Nellie is known as the GardenMama to her listeners, and she cuts to the chase with succinct, effective advice on finding the best suited plants, simplifying garden chores, keeping plants looking healthy and great, and working with Mother Nature. She hears her favorite compliment often-"Your advice really works." It can work for you. Chapters cover fall, winter, spring, and summer, each with a chores and tips for the season, and questions straight from the talk show. This second edition adds month-by- month pruning tips and plenty of new questions with their witty and wonderful answers. "Nellie Neal's gardening advice is as southern as live oaks festooned with Spanish moss. With wit and wisdom she answers tough questions gleaned from years of give and take with southern gardeners. From turnip greens to tropical hibiscus...if you have a question, she has the answer! " -Jim Wilson, Author and former co-host, The Victory Garden, PBS.
The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions & Answers
Author: Leslie Land
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780761119975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of gardening wisdom in a question-and-answer format provides information on flowers, trees, lawns, herbs, vegetables, indoor plants, and fruits, with tips on cultivation, selecting plants, and pest control.
The Humane Gardener
Author: Nancy Lawson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1616896175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Gardener's Guide to Tropical Plants
Author: Nellie Neal
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Published: 2012-08-15
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1610582799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow gardeners can bring an exotic flair to their gardens by introducing the color, textures, and fabulous foliage of tropical plants. Not just for hot climates anymore, bromeliads, orchids, bananas, palms, birds of paradise, elephant ears, canna, and more can bring a touch of the tropics to any garden. Gardener’s can choose from more than 150 plants featured in this book, each chosen for the visual impact it adds to any landscape or container garden. Plants are organized by a range of clearly defined zones, making it easy for gardeners to find the plants that will succeed in their landscape. Author Nellie Neal explains how to best use tropical plants both indoors and out. To make this book a universally useful guide, it is organized to explain how to grow tropical plants in a wide range of clearly defined zones. Further, the book illustrates how to best use these plants in landscapes and containers, indoors and out, no matter where you live. It is a practical, user-friendly celebration of tropical plants.
The Nonstop Color Garden
Author: Nellie Neal
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Published: 2014-12-30
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1627885536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYour garden can be a kaleidoscope of color in every season! Ask any gardener and they will tell you, color is the most important (and most fun!) part of garden design. In The Nonstop Color Garden, author Nellie Neal shows how to use color as an exciting element in your garden during all four seasons--and it's not just flowers! Year-round color is possible by including trees, shrubs, and groundcovers that produce colorful berries and bark, as well as flowers during spring and summer. Even the shapes of plants can enhance your garden by providing all-season architectural interest--Nellie makes it easy to explore it all. The Nonstop Color Garden is perfect for the more experienced gardener, but even an engaged novice will find much to learn about the best plants for nonstop color, garden structure, and garden design. Nellie presents several strategies for crafting a thematically cohesive yet unstylized landscape that includes plant selection and placement. Use the balanced juxtaposition of opposites in texture, size, shape and color. Create unifying pairings of similar foliage types. Work with existing land forms and indigenous vegetation. Everyone who takes pride and pleasure in their garden will not want to miss this informative, fun, colorful book!
The Grumpy Gardener
Author: Steve Bender
Publisher: Time Inc. Books
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0848755502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefinitive gardening advice - along with a story or two - for the novice or expert from one of the nation's most-trusted, and Grumpy, sources. Gardeners from across the country have turned to Southern Living Senior Garden Editor Steven Bender - known affectionately as "The Grumpy Gardener" - for his keen knowledge and gardening know-how with equal doses sarcasm and sidesplitting humor for nearly 35 years. Finally, the collected wit and wisdom of the magazine's most irreverent and beloved columnist can be found in a single A - Z volume, providing gardeners from coast-to-coast with his valuable tips for planting, troubleshooting, and growing flowers, vegetables, shrubs, trees and more, all delivered in his signature cantankerous style. Sidebars throughout the book - "Ask Grumpy" - help readers tackle common garden problems ("How do I get ride of little house ants?"), and readers from the past 35 years take part in the book when Grumpy shares his favorite reader's responses to some of his advice, his favorite rules for gardening, and Q & A's covering your favorite plants and flowers are all inside. Additionally, beautiful line-drawings and illustrations throughout make the book as beautiful to look at as well as entertaining to read. The Grumpy Gardener is sure to become the most trusted tool in your gardening shed!
Gracie's Garden
Author: Lara Casey
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2020-07-14
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 1087706289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle by little, good things grow! Come play in the garden with Gracie! Join the garden tea party with her sister Sarah, taste tomatoes right off the vine with her crunchy munchy brother Joshua, and plant seeds! Some seeds, though, don't grow fast enough for Joshua. He wants to munch on tomatoes NOW. What will he do while he waits on those tiny tomato seeds to grow? Step into the garden to find out! Author and business owner Lara Casey has learned many rich lessons from the garden, including how to celebrate that God grows good things little by little. In her first children's book, she heads back to the tomato vines to share her joy and wisdom with little gardeners. Includes a free Garden Giggles poster!
A New Garden Ethic
Author: Benjamin Vogt
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2017-09-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1771422459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.
The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book
Author: Barbara W. Ellis
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 160342024X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers advice on planning and planting a vegetable garden, improving the soil, pest control, caring for crops, and harvesting.
