Natural Gardening

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Indoor Gardening the Organic Way (535 readers)

Contributed by amazon 15.10 2007 on 21:06:35 Topic: Other / Books

How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants | Chock full of up-to-date information on using all-natural growing principles in the specialized indoor environment, Indoor Gardening the Organic Way reveals how to grow houseplants the way nature intended. It invites the reader to join the growing ranks of gardeners reaping the benefits of creating a gentler, more natural environment by treating houseplants to a healthful, toxin-free lifestyle. ...

Natural Gardening in Small Spaces (905 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.04 2007 on 09:58:53 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and 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. ...

Gardening with a Wild Heart (591 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.08 2007 on 10:19:55 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Restoring Californias Native Landscapes at Home | Judith Lowrys voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions. This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic combines personal story, wildland ecology, restoration gardening practices, and native plant horticulture. ...

The Landscaping Ideas of Jays (513 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:46:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

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. ...

Gardening with Light & Colour (374 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.11 2007 on 11:53:37 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Encouraging gardeners to reassess their favorite flowers and how they are planted, the focus here is on working with natural light to get the best out of any garden. Readers are led through the color spectrum and given advice on which plants to choose and how to handle them in northern and southern hemisphere gardens, all backed by stunning photography. ...

Quick & Easy Container Gardening (743 readers)

Contributed by amazon 05.03 2008 on 13:10:01 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Whether your garden is large or small, traditional or modern, Quick and Easy Container Gardening is packed with ideas and inspiration. As well as all the basic techniques you need for successful planting in pots, there are 20 step-by-step project ideas that are so simple to follow. If you wish to grow your own, a chapter on Crops in Pots shows how to grow fruit, herbs, and vegetables on a small scale. ...

California Home Landscaping (2123 readers)

Contributed by amazon 05.01 2007 on 10:26:49 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Make a California home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping. Like the other titles in this series, this book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. In the Design Portfolio section, readers will find 48 designs created by landscape professionals in California. ...

The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening (356 readers)

Contributed by amazon 29.01 2008 on 13:08:56 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Natural , Sustainable, Organic | In this updated second edition of the popular guide, Ann Lovejoy explains how to create a gorgeous ornamental garden following the principles and techniques of organic and sustainable gardening. Emphasizing good soil prep, composting, drainage, mulching, and proper plant selection, the book covers every step from landscaping and design to soil prep to planting beds, all with the goal of creatinga lovely garden without chemical fertilizers or pest control. Janet L ...

Secrets of Companion Planting (660 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.05 2008 on 11:10:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Plants That Help, Plants That Hurt | Transform a messy, tangled garden into a lush, productive retreat with this simple yet thorough handbook. The basics of companion gardening can be easily integrated into one’s gardening style using the nurturing power of Mother Nature and taking fundamental principles into account. Not merely a seasonal occupation or hobby, companion planting is a natural way to restore balance to outdoor spaces. ...

Design Your Natural Midwest Garden (525 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.07 2007 on 12:08:42 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Gardening with native species is low-maintenance, good for the environment, and yields stunning results. Award-winning garden designer Patricia Hill shows you how to combine varieties that are perfect for the soil and climates of the upper Midwest into beautiful combinations for every space around your home. ...

Designing California Native Gardens (670 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:10:38 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens | Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of Californias native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities--bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, ripari ...

Landscaping With Ornamental Grasses Sunset book (1087 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.03 2007 on 20:49:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Sunset is the first to offer Landscaping with Ornamental Grasses, a complete design and reference book that explores the history of grasses in their natural settings, and describes how to integrate them in a variety of climatic situations shady woodland to desert, Asian-style gardens to naturalistic landscapes, family-friendly yards to small patios. ...

Designing with Plants (628 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:37:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

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 ...

Classic Bonsai of Japan (911 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.04 2007 on 08:09:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Enter the fascinating world of bonsai, the centuries-old gardening art form of cultivating trees as potted plants. Refined to a high art in Japan, bonsai offers not only the familiar gardening delights but also, at its highest levels, a philosophical and aesthetic communion with nature. ...

Gardening With Ferns (566 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.05 2007 on 19:46:11 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Guidance for a variety of fern projects | Comprehensive A-Z section covering the most garden-worthy species | Written by a leading authority in the world of ferns The variety of fern species available today has made them an integral part of garden design. This book will inspire amateur gardeners and enthusiasts to undertake more in-depth garden projects utilizing ferns, from including them in a mixed border, creating a natural dry-stone habitat, and bringing the Antipodean rainforest to the door ...

Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin (632 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:54:51 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Aimed at beginners and veteran gardeners alike, this book is designed to help Wisconsin gardeners find, plant, and maintain the best native species for their specific sites, however modest or lavish. Gardening with native plants is an ever-more popular practice—and for good reason. Naturally suited to a region’s climate and soil, native plants tend to thrive, and to reflect a true “fit” with the environment. ...

Dream Plants for the Natural Garden (862 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.04 2007 on 09:46:41 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Timber Press has previously published two critically acclaimed and bestselling books by Piet Oudolf, the influential Dutch landscape designer: Gardening with Grasses (with Michael King) and Designing with Plants (with Noël Kingsbury). This new collaboration with fellow Dutch plantsman Henk Gerritsen deals with a selection of some 1200 plants most suitable for Oudolfs New Wave naturalism, which emphasizes the importance of plant structures in providing all-season interest. ...

Gardens of the Spirit 2008 Calendar (955 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.10 2007 on 08:01:34 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Strongly influenced by Shinto and Buddhism, the Japanese style of landscaping is particularly conducive to restoring an inner calm. Requiring an artful blend of imagination, skill and patience, the Japanese garden is an extension of the self. By adapting the harmonies of natural design to our own landscape, we heighten our understanding of the world around us and within us. ...

Bulbs for Garden Habitats (687 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.04 2007 on 11:26:13 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Where most bulbs books repeat the seasonal approach to bulb gardening by bloom time, assuming the usual fall ritual of mass planting bulbs by the bushel, this book advocates more careful study of natural habitats and cultural needs before planting. All gardeners have experienced the frustration of having a bulb flower in the first year after planting, but poorly or never again thereafter. ...

The Garden Lover's Guide to Houston (579 readers)

Contributed by amazon 21.01 2008 on 08:40:20 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History | The Houston area offers an abundance of resources and activities for gardeners and garden lovers, if people only know where to look: Love roses? Go to the Garden Center in Hermann Park. Want fresh vegetables? Pay in advance for a weekly supply at Central City Co-op. Cant live without daffodils? Find twenty varieties at the Bulb and Plants Mart. ...