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Annuals & Perennials (539 readers)

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Botanicas Pocket (Botanicas Pocket Series) | With over 1000 colour photographs and more than 2000 plants listed, Botanicas Pocket Annuals & Perennials is sure to find an important place in your gardening library. This outstanding guide will help you find new and exciting ways to bring colour to your garden. It features a wealth of information,including: ...

Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials and Half-Hardy Perennials (759 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.04 2007 on 10:39:33 Topic: Other / Books

Annuals are experiencing a resurgence as todays gardeners demand a wider variety of options. No longer confined to monotone bedding plants, dozens of unusual annuals are now available at garden centers in colors and forms far removed from the classic annual bed of pink petunias or red geraniums. ...

400 Best Garden Plants (576 readers)

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A Practical Encyclopedia of Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, Trees and Shrubs | This fully comprehensive guide to the outstanding garden plants of every season should be on the book shelves of both novice gardeners and green-fingered experts. More than 425 full-color photographs illustrate detailed listings for specific varieties of annuals, perennials, bulbs, and trees. ...

How to Grow Annuals & Perennials (409 readers)

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How to grow flowers through the year, with a practical guide to gardening skills for every type of situation, climate and x of garden. Step-by-step techniques and more than 250 practical photographs. ...

Annuals, Perennials, & Bulbs (518 readers)

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Stunning flower gardens that bloom through the seasons depend on the artful combination of annuals, perennials, and bulbs. In this book, Anne Halpin shows you how to grow these plants and gives foolproof design techniques for any landscape. The extensive section on using color in the garden can guide you through the tricky process of plant placement and selection. Practical techniques are emphasized too. You will learn how to care for soil, start plants from seeds, grow and care for plants in co ...

Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants (765 readers)

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Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts | Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants provides a combination of observations, expertise and master photographs. This new book is a resource that gardeners will use again and again for its thoroughness, accessibility and reliability. ...

Armitage's Garden Annuals (803 readers)

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A Color Encyclopedia | Horticulturists, students, and dedicated home gardeners will be familiar with Armitages authority on this topic from his more technical Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials. That volume was singled out as a winner of the Choice Academic Book Award, the American Horticultural Society Book Award, and the Garden Writers of America Golden Globe Award. While this new offering is a perfect pictorial companion to the Manual, it also stands alone with its person ...

What's Wrong with My Plant? (588 readers)

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Expert Information at Your Fingertips (Pyramid Paperbacks) | Whatever’s ailing your plant—from slugs and bugs to molds, rots, and wilts—this guide has the cure. Written by an award-winning garden writer, it helps you get to the root of the problem with expert diagnostic advice, and offers quick and effective solutions for eliminating more than 130 international pests, diseases, and disorders. Gardeners can choose from both chemical and organic remedies for trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and ...

The 5-Minute Gardener (517 readers)

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How to Plan, Create, and Sustain a Low-Maintenance Garden | With a little preparation and a few minutes a day, new or experienced gardeners can have a colorful flower garden and a bounty of vegetables with this fun and handy manual. Readers interested in a successful flower garden learn how to choose low-care perennials and annuals as well as develop blueprints, analyze the soil, and choose the right equipment. A productive vegetable garden can be achieved with low-care, high-yield vegetables as ...

Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest (702 readers)

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Timber Press Field Guide | Featuring more than 1240 stunning color photographs, this comprehensive field guide will remain a trusted, authoritative trailside reference for years to come. It describes and illustrates 1220 commonly encountered species, both native and nonnative, including perennials, annuals, and shrubs. Encompassing the Pacific Northwest from southern British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the mountains and high desert, this handy book is perfect for hikers, n ...

Success with Sun-Loving Plants (417 readers)

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As gardeners become increasingly concerned with both drought and water conservation, plants that love the sun are an attractive option. From white flowering hawthorns to richly scented wisteria, they come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, with endless potential for producing stunning planting schemes. You’ll find success with this vividly illustrated volume, which shows how to select the best sun-friendly varieties and plant them with confidence—whatever your experience. ...

Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens (815 readers)

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The popularity of native North American plants has soared in recent years, for many good reasons. Whatever draws you to native plants, youll find no better or more authoritative guide than Allan Armitage. Widely acknowledged as one of the worlds foremost horticulturists, Armitage describes more than 630 species and cultivars of perennials, biennials, and annuals that are native to the United States, bringing to each plant a wealth of practical knowledge and the full weight of his experience and ...

The Well-Designed Mixed Garden (801 readers)

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Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs | The Well-Designed Mixed Garden is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants of all kinds (hence the mixed garden of the title), it reflects decades of professional experience and artistic innovation. As with her bestselling book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden , master designer and plantswoman Tracy DiSabato-Aust provides not only inspiration but also scrupulously organiz ...

Designing with Plants (520 readers)

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When your new gardening bible comes with chapters entitled Birth, Life, and Death, you know youre in trouble. But be brave, turn to those chapters, and in some very practical little essays on planting, youll uncover the very down-to-earth principle from which Piet Oudolfs radical reinvention of gardening is based: plants die. In the traditional mixed border, shrubs, climbers, perennials, bulbs, and annuals defy mortality; when one plant passes its best, theres always another in the wings, waitin ...

The Landscaping Ideas of Jays (405 readers)

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A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden | Elegantly organized by season, this lyrical yet practical guide to backyard restoration gardening celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home. Judith Larner Lowry, winner of the prestigious John Burroughs award, here builds on themes from her best-selling Gardening with a Wild Heart, which introduced restoration gardening as a new way of thinking about land and people. ...

The Plant Doctor (430 readers)

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A Practical Guide to Having a Healthy Garden | Every spring, plant lovers around the world are faced with life-or-death questions such as: Will it be petunias or pansies? Marigolds or morning glories? Do I dare plant azaleas in the shade? Although most of us still rely on friends or dumb luck to figure things out, there is a better way. The Plant Doctor is a gardeners one-stop resource for common gardening questions. Whether youre a novice struggling to keep your day lilies alive or a more exper ...

Flora (905 readers)

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A Gardeners Encyclopedia | This comprehensive, beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of plants contains information on more than 20,000 plants from all around the world. Organized in an A-Z format by botanical name, the individual entries provide a detailed description of each plant and its features, including notes on origin, cultivation requirements, growth habit, propagation, and pests and diseases. ...

Making the Most of Shade (1043 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.03 2007 on 11:12:11 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A gorgeous celebration of the shade garden-featuring nearly 300 perennials, annuals, bulbs, ferns, ornamental grasses, and climbing plants that will thrive without direct sunlight. A shaded garden can be a soothing sanctuary that even the most dedicated sun worshipper can welcome on a hot summer day. But how do you get plants to grow in a spot where trees and shrubs hide the sun? In this stunning volume, garden expert Larry Hodgson shows how to create a lush and lovely garden filled with plants ...

Perennial Vegetables (439 readers)

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From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardeners Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles | There is a fantastic array of vegetables you can grow in your garden, and not all of them are annuals. In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food. ...

A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (3468 readers)

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The most comprehensive, detailed, and lavishly illustrated guide to garden plants ever published, first published in 1997, has now been completely revised to include nearly 250 new plants and photos. The AHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants is an essential reference for all gardeners, from novices to experts. ...