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Author: Sonja Nelson
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe genus Rhododendron presents a wonderfully varied range of colours, textures, forms, shapes, sizes, and attitudes. Rhododendron and azalea lovers face the challenge of carrying these advantages into the greater landscape. Sonja Nelson presents a myriad of possibilities in answer to this challenge.
Author: Jana Milbocker
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998833521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew England has a rich gardening heritage. In The Garden Tourist's New England, garden designer Jana Milbocker takes you on a fantastic tour of 140 gardens and nurseries and provides all the information you need to make the most of your visit. From the breathtaking flower gardens of Mount Desert Island in Maine, to Colonial Revival gardens in Connecticut and New Hampshire, topiary gardens in Rhode Island, and botanical gardens in Vermont and Massachusetts, there is something for every gardener to enjoy in a tour of the region. A companion to the Northeast edition of The Garden Tourist, this guide features notable private gardens, specialty nurseries, and off-the-beaten-path destinations for the passionate gardener.?Preview 140 outstanding gardens including 34 specialty nurseries in 264 pages richly illustrated with 700 photos.?Enjoy the best botanical, historic, and private gardens in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.?Plan your trips with regional maps, contact information, sample itineraries, and garden amenities.
Author: Michelle Slatalla
Publisher: Artisan Books
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1579656528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed a Best Gift Book for Gardeners by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Domino magazine, and Goop. The team behind the inspirational design sites Gardenista.com and Remodelista.com presents an all-in-one manual for making your outdoor space as welcoming as your living room. Tour personality-filled gardens around the world and re-create the looks with no-fail planting palettes. Find hundreds of design tips and easy DIYs, editors’ picks of 100 classic (and stylish) objects, a landscaping primer with tips from pros, over 200 resources, and so much more.
Author: Kenneth COX
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-22
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ISBN-13: 9781527217874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. Edward Reiley
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780881926378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of Success with Rhododendrons and Azaleas offers in one handy volume all the information gardeners need to grow these delightful plants. Reiley advises on selecting the best rhododendron cultivars for any site based on cold hardiness and heat tolerance and shares modern methods for transplanting containerized plants. The text has been fully updated for this revised edition, and presents the latest cutting-edge research. The indispensable "good-doer" lists have been refined, and a new chapter on North American native azaleas added. Reiley has included more than 100 color photographs illustrating these lavishly blooming shrubs. This improved version of an already popular reference is an invaluable tool for azalea and rhododendron fans.--COVER.
Author: Kenneth Cox
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781861267849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRhododendrons & Azaleas profiles over 4,000 varieties of this highly popular and striking plant. Illustrated with 1,100 color photographs, each entry includes a description of the plant and flower col∨ notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; and the name of the parent plants, the raiser, and similar varieties. Practical advice is also given on rhododendrons in the landscape, maintenance and husbandry, pests, diseases, problems and disorders, propagation, and buying and collecting rhododendrons, along with a brief history and a guide to their classification.
Author: Evelyn Hadden
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1604693320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a guide to creating a garden in such unused spaces as land beside a driveway, next to steps, or between the sidewalk and the street curb, discussing how to prepare the soil and listing the varieties of plants suitable for these conditions.
Author: Harold E. Greer
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780881921847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the journals maintained at Greer Gardens, this pedigree book of some 5000 hybrids is organized by grex so that hybrids of the same parents are listed together, with cross-references from the hybrid name. The photographs are all different from those in the first edition.
Author: Eileen M Stark
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Published: 2014-09-24
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 1594858675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCLICK HERE to download sample native plants from Real Gardens Grow Natives For many people, the most tangible and beneficial impact they can have on the environment is right in their own yard. Aimed at beginning and veteran gardeners alike, Real Gardens Grow Natives is a stunningly photographed guide that helps readers plan, implement, and sustain a retreat at home that reflects the natural world. Gardening with native plants that naturally belong and thrive in the Pacific Northwest’s climate and soil not only nurtures biodiversity, but provides a quintessential Northwest character and beauty to yard and neighborhood! For gardeners and conservationists who lack the time to read through lengthy design books and plant lists or can’t afford a landscape designer, Real Gardens Grow Natives is accessible yet comprehensive and provides the inspiration and clear instruction needed to create and sustain beautiful, functional, and undemanding gardens. With expert knowledge from professional landscape designer Eileen M. Stark, Real Gardens Grow Natives includes: * Detailed profiles of 100 select native plants for the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades, plus related species, helping make plant choice and placement. * Straightfoward methods to enhance or restore habitat and increase biodiversity * Landscape design guidance for various-sized yards, including sample plans * Ways to integrate natives, edibles, and nonnative ornamentals within your garden * Specific planting procedures and secrets to healthy soil * Techniques for propagating your own native plants * Advice for easy, maintenance using organic methods
Author: Jana Milbocker
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11-10
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780998833538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorida gardens illustrate the amazing biodiversity of the state as well as plant collections from other tropical areas of the world. In The Garden Tourist's Florida, garden designer Jana Milbocker guides you on a fantastic tour of 80 tropical gardens and provides all the information you need to make the most of your visit. From the plantation-style gardens of northern Florida to the private Edens of painters and sculptors, botanical collections of world-renowned plant hunters, and European-inspired estates of Miami, there is something for every gardener to enjoy in a tour of the state. The Garden Tourist's Florida features outstanding botanical gardens, historic estates, butterfly gardens and zoos, specialty nurseries, and off-the-beaten-path destinations for the passionate gardener. - Preview 80 outstanding gardens in 204 pages richly illustrated with 500 photos. - Enjoy the best botanical and historic gardens in Florida. - Plan your trips with regional maps, contact information, sample itineraries, and garden amenities.
