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Helleborus orientalis 'Yellow Lady' - Lenten Rose

Great Garden Companions (778 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:16:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden: Discover the secrets of a naturally pest-proof vegetable garden with Great Garden Companions. Let master gardener Sally Jean Cunningham show you how to keep pests and diseases at bay with her unique companion-gardening system. By planting special combinations of vegetables, flowers, and herbs, you can minimize pest and disease problems and create a high-yielding, beautiful garden! ...

Platycodon grandiflorus 'Fuji White' - Balloon Flower (864 readers)

Contributed by amazon 22.06 2007 on 10:37:41 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Title and Article's text

Great for the sunny border or for cutting! Big White Balloons on Tall, Ultra-Hardy Plants! 25- to 30-inch plants bloom in summer. Cheery white stars all summer long are gorgeous in the garden or vase! This exceptionally tall variety reaches 25 to 30 inches in the garden, with blooms on long, elegant stems. A great choice for cut flowers, it contrasts nicely with the blues of most Balloon Flowers. ...

Ligularia dentata 'Britt Marie Crawford' - Bigleaf Ligularia (713 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.07 2007 on 09:02:59 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Title and Article's text

Ligularia are big, bold plants that need constant moisture. They are great additions to bogs, seasonally flooded areas, woodland edge or reliably moist shade gardens. They make a wonderful transition from the hosta garden to the woodlands. ...

A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region (1451 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.09 2007 on 09:18:48 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Finally, for every resident and visitor to the region, a comprehensive guide to the gardens of eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware. Magnificently illustrated with nearly 200 full color photographs, A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region provides essential information on how to locate and enjoy the finest gardens the area has to offer. ...

The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto (501 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.07 2007 on 09:39:42 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

From the Archives of Country Life | The gardens of the great Edwardian landscape designer, captured in all their glory in 200 color and duotone images from the archives of Country Life . Harold Peto (1854–1933) was one of the most celebrated landscape designers of the Edwardian era. A leading exponent of the ultra-romantic Italianate style so fashionable in the first two decades of the 20th century, he was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. ...

Perennial Combinations (1009 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:12:18 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Perennial combinations are the building blocks of beautiful, successful gardens. Choosing perennials that look great and grow well together is a skill that can take years to develop, but with this book, youre guaranteed to make perfect plant choices right from the start. In Perennial Combinations, expert plantsman, C. Colston Burrell hand-selects 120 of the best perennial combinations for homeowners, then offers his expert advice on how to grow and use the combinations to create great gardens. ...

Natural Gardening in Small Spaces (795 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.04 2007 on 09:58:53 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

With the growing recognition that a wisely and sensitively planted garden has a lot to offer to wildlife and the food web, more and more people are looking for ways to make their gardens environmentally friendly. However, gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. ...

Rock Garden Plants (738 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.04 2007 on 10:16:23 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Color Encyclopedia | Baldassare Mineo is owner of Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery in Medford, Oregon, one of the worlds great sources of plants for rock gardens. Mineos own photographs are supplemented with many by the renowned horticulturist Fritz Kummert. This authoritative includes rare and unusual plants as well as proven, readily available garden performers. ...

Monarda didyma 'Panorama Red Shades' - Bee Balm, Beebalm (1528 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.06 2007 on 09:16:22 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Both the flowers and the foliage are fragrant! The First Separate Monarda Color. Super resistance to Powdery Mildew! At last, a single-color Bee Balm that will come true from seed! Red Shades wowed us in grower trials, both with its ultra-colorful, frizzy 1 1/4- to 1 3/4-inch blooms and its great resistance to Powdery Mildew! ...

Organic Garden Basics (458 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 10:02:37 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Five Easy Steps to Growing Organically | One of Britain’s leading organic gardeners shows how to create a natural garden that looks great, teems with wildlife, and yields delicious, healthy produce. Almost everyone has concerns about how pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, and other chemicals affect both the environment and our food, and gardeners everywhere are choosing to go organic. They’ll discover the smartest and most successful ways to achieve their goal on these information-packed and ...

Deutzia gracilis 'Seward' ppaf, cpaf - Chardonnay Pearls™ (744 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.07 2007 on 11:50:08 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's text

CHARDONNAY PEARLSTM (D. gracilis. Duncan ppaf, Canadian BRAF) Attractive, crisp, lime-yellow foliage provides season long garden color long after the pure white, pearl-like buds explode into a shower of fragrant spring time flowers. An attractive compact shrub with lots of impulse appeal. Great for the perennial garden or shrub border ...

European Garden Flora (639 readers)

Contributed by amazon 26.04 2007 on 14:15:50 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

6 volume hardback set: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass (European Garden Flora) | The European Garden Flora includes comprehensive keys at the family, genus, and species level, line diagrams to illustrate important diagnostic features of critical taxa, references to useful illustrations and taxonomic accounts. ...

Musa 'Little Prince' - Banana (1086 readers)

Contributed by amazon 21.01 2008 on 08:32:18 Topic: Plants / Tropical and Subtropical Plants Match on Article's text

Due to the compactness of Musa Little Prince, it is ideally suited as both a houseplant and can also be used as a tropical accent in the garden and in a summer container. Little Prince is an extremely dwarf banana, selected for its compact size and thick foliage. ...

The Romantic Herb Garden (434 readers)

Contributed by amazon 15.10 2007 on 21:11:36 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The must-have ingredient of any garden, herbs have long been the stalwarts of the cottage garden, imparting fragrance and health as well as flavor to beds and borders. However, todays garden designers have realized that herbs can also help to shape or be a key visual element in a garden. The Romantic Herb Garden shows how you can design with herbs, using these plants in an innovative and bold way as either a backdrop to or even the star of any garden scheme. ...

Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners (484 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.12 2007 on 12:00:03 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Christopher Lloyd was one of the worlds most outspoken and adventurous gardeners. In this, his last book, he offers his unique perspective on creating hot and steamy planting schemes wherever you garden. It features his most extravagant plantings in the famous borders and pot displays that delight and excite, and sometimes shock, visitors to his garden, Great Dixter. ...

Lobelia cardinalis - Cardinal Flower (861 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.06 2007 on 09:28:41 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Brilliant Crimson Spikes Glow in Late Summer and Fall! Dark purple-red foliage! Brighten the part-shade garden with rich red blooms to bridge that awkward time in between summer and fall, when much of the garden is not at its best! Cardinal Flower is a hardy native U.S. plant that thrives in any moist, organically-enriched soil receiving both sun and shade. ...

Acer palmatum 'Dissectum Seiryu' - Seiryu Japanese Maple (3313 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 09:33:47 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Trees Match on Article's text

Attractive garden or patio tree displays exciting cascading branches. The green foliage turns yellow-gold to red in fall. Useful small tree for garden accents or in containers. Try it behind medium sized, moss covered boulders mixed with flowering shade shrubs like azaleas. Makes great bonsai too!! Deciduous. Filtered sun. Slow grower to 6 to 8 feet tall and wide if not pruned. Shipped fully containerized in its original 5 gallon pot. Current height about 4.5 feet tall. Hardy to USDA zone 5. ...

Aruncus dioicus - Goats Beard (713 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.08 2007 on 08:50:23 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Synonyms:Aruncus sylvester, Spiraea aruncus, Spiraea paniculata. Great drifts of lacy white for summer! 5-Foot Feathery Plumes of Airy White! Looks delicate, but has a tough, vigorous nature! The secret is out--this Goats Beard is a landscaping dream! Vigorous and bold, it is ideal for the back of the border where its large, wispy plumes of soft ivory float like clouds above the foliage. It is also great at the edge of the water, naturalized in a meadow or woodland setting, or even as a backdrop ...

Ferns for American Gardens (679 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:44:22 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Timber Press is proud to add John Mickels classic Ferns for American Gardens to its catalog. Unusual in its specific focus on cold-hardy ferns, the volume is based on Mickels personal experience as a scientist and curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden as well as his years as a home gardener. The bulk of the book is an encyclopedic treatment of more than 400 kinds of ferns with 360 color photos in addition to numerous black and white images. Useful appendices, including updated source ...

Grasses (502 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.06 2007 on 09:46:35 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design | From spring green to winter gold, the drama of grasses is nonstop. There are the striking yellow-and-green ostrich plumes of Zebra Grass. The fine-textured leaves of Blue Oat Grass. Flame Grasss dazzling red-orange leaves, Fountain Grasss coppery brushes, the rich brown nuggets of Northern Sea Oats, the feathery purple haze of Switch Grass. ...