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 | Hostas is the definitive guide to the popular hardy perennial that gardeners have come to rely upon and enjoy. Favored for their beauty and longevity, these shade-loving, low-maintenance plants bear foliage in all manner of shape, size and texture and in colors ranging from steel blue, tonal greens and yellows to multi-colored. Their long-blooming, aromatic flowers come in variations of white, pale lavender and blue-purple. The growing season for hostas stretches from early spring to late fall, ...
Amazon / Firefly Books / Book
 Price: 203.77 $ |  | The largest of the three species of Strelitzia from South Africa, the White Bird of Paradise will form a clump of several tall and slender trunks with distichous crowns of large, leathery banana-like leaves, and carries large clusters of blue and white, birdlike flowers (hence the common name). S. nicolai will grow happily in all temperate and tropical areas that experience only light frosts. Borne on the same stalk, the flower is a spectacular blossom. Modified leaves, at the end of the stalk, ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
Price: 160.00 $ |  | In recent years, the blue orchard bee (BOB) has become established as an alternative orchard pollinator in North America. With a strong preference for fruit trees, BOBs are highly efficient pollinators; in fact, just 250-300 females will pollinate an entire acre of apples or almonds. BOBs forage and pollinate under cloudy skies and at lower temperatures than most other bees. They are easy to manage and rarely sting. To learn how to manage BOBs for successful orchard pollination, consult this gui ...
Amazon / Sustainable Agriculture Network / Book
Price: 154.61 $ |  | The Indispensable Guide to the Successful Garden. Now comprehensively revised and updated: over 40% of plants are NEW entries; all photographs are NEW; includes more detailed and NEW information -- USDA hardiness zones, additional plants of interest, etc; and two completely NEW chapters. You will find more than 1,470 plants organized by: GROWING CONDITIONS Plants that will grow in: Shallow soils over chalk Acid soils Heavy clay soils Polluted atmosphere Windswept, seaside sites Dry soils in hot, ...
Amazon / Touchstone / Book
Price: 132.00 $ |  | Poppies, first published in 1993, was the first book devoted exclusively to these most loved and cherished of plants. Not only are the true poppies, genus Papaver, covered, but all the other members of the poppy family as well. This includes the horned poppies Glaucium, the tree poppies Dendromecon, the California poppies Eschscholzia, the desert poppies, Arctomecon, the prickly poppies Argemone, the pygmy poppies Canbya, the plumed poppies Macleaya, the blue poppies Meconopsis, the long fruited ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 116.55 $ |  | Livistona chinensis is also known as Chinese fan palm or Chinese fountain palm. It is sometimes named Latania chinensis. As suggests its common names, it is native to China. The Chinese fan palm may reach 50 ft tall, but is generally smaller, with a more modest size of 20-30 ft. It has a smooth grey stipe, and a dense canopy made of slightly drooping palmate leaves. Leaves - The Chinese fan palm has an evergreen dense canopy, made of palmate leaves that can be up to 5 ft long. These leaves are m ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
Price: 100.00 $ |  | The Majorelle Gardens of Marrakech were laid out in the 1920s by Louis Majorelle, the French decorator, architect and painter renowned for his participation in both the art nouveau and art deco movements. He gave his name to the shade of blue lavishly used to paint the house and ornament the garden decoration. The site has been restored and replanted by the designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge in the vibrant primary colours of the original, to which they have added their pers ...
Amazon / Vendome Press / Book
Price: 80.00 $ |  | Of all the flowering vines, Passion Flower bear some of the showiest blooms on earth. An easily grown plant, these look absolutely stunning in the garden or inside as a year-round houseplant. The blooms of Blue Passion Flower are multi-colored, with a mint scent much like the fruit of the pineapple guava. This variety is extremely fast growing, and may grow up to 30 a season. It is also one of the hardiest passion flowers, dying back in colder climates but hardy to 10F. It will regrow from roots ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
Price: 80.00 $ |  | Tree with a dense, conical or sometimes flat-topped crown, many slender, nearly horizontal branches, and glossy foliage turning scarlet in autumn. An attractive, variable-shaped deciduous tree, black tupelo grows 30-60 ft. or taller, with horizontally spreading branches. A bottle-shaped trunk forms if grown in shallow standing water. Smooth, waxy, dark-green summer foliage changes to fluorescent yellow, orange, scarlet and purple in fall. (Trees in warmer climates may not be as colorful.) Berrie ...
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Price: 62.50 $ |  | Common Names: blue palm, blue palmetto, dwarf palm, dwarf palmetto, bluestem palmetto, Loisiana palmetto. Sabal minor is one of the few palms able to survive regions with hard winters. It is grown by gardeners and landscapers for this reason. These tend to remain trunkless and smaller than those from warmer areas. This palm has reportedly been grown as far north as Rhode Island on the east coast of the U.S.. zone 7 - 11 ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
Price: 60.00 $ |  | Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895- 1935, written by Sam Watters and published in collaboration with the Library of Congress, presents for the first time 250 colored photographs of urban and suburban gardens taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston- photographer of presidents, celebrity authors, tastemakers, and estates of the County House Era. At the opening of the 20th century, as artist and progressive, Johnston was front and center in the movement to beautify America. Gilded Age industrialism h ...
Amazon / Acanthus Press / Book
Price: 55.30 $ |  | Quick, easy to make, sophisticated, and elegant: these 40 silk flower arrangements are well suited to todays busy home decorator. The basics of designing that are illustrated and presented here will soon have the arranger making creative leaps in styling. Put the new, more life-like than ever, silk flowers in treasured tiny vases, go simply exotic with Chinese-red blossoms and a single bold leaf, or make an everlasting, never fading brides bouquet. Show off a bucket of tall blossoms, artfully ar ...
Amazon / Lark Books / Book
Price: 51.98 $ |  | Allan Armitage has a well-deserved reputation for serving up solid information with precision and humor. Now based in Georgia, Armitage began his gardening career in Montreal. Thus, he knows a lot about what happens to plants in both Northern and Southern gardens. He shares his experience and experiments with great good will, offering a depth and breadth of information that is rarely surpassed. Armitages take on hundreds of hardy perennials includes cultural specifics, propagation techniques, an ...
Amazon / Stipes Pub Llc / Book
Price: 51.00 $ | | | Of all the flowering vines, Passion Flower bear some of the showiest blooms on earth. An easily grown plant, these look absolutely stunning in the garden or inside as a year-round houseplant. The blooms of Blue Passion Flower are multi-colored, with a mint scent much like the fruit of the pineapple guava. This variety is extremely fast growing, and may grow up to 30 a season. It is also one of the hardiest passion flowers, dying back in colder climates but hardy to 10F. It will regrow from roots ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
Price: 50.00 $ |  | The gardens of Mexico are some of the most extraordinary in the world, and the people of Mexico have cultivated a deeply spiritual connection and reverence for their land. Through generations of toil and inventiveness, they found ways to tame the soil, using bold combinations of plants. As Alfonso Alfaro writes in his introduction, the “culture was synonymous with plant life, and plant life was transformed into art.” That heritage is still alive today in Mexico, and Paraíso Mexicano beautifully ...
Amazon / Clarkson Potter / Book
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