Rock Garden

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Rock Garden Design and Construction (995 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:22:53 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Few gardens can transport visitors to wild and rugged landscapes as well as rock gardens. Eye-catching rock gardens are among the most challenging — and satisfying — expressions of the gardeners craft. A true rock garden is a specialized habitat that allows the gardener to grow plants that do not flourish anywhere else. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of building rock gardens in all parts of North America. Topics covered include rock placement, materials, and planting and main ...

Rock Garden Plants (846 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.04 2007 on 10:16:23 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and 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. ...

Tulips (791 readers)

Contributed by amazon 03.04 2007 on 11:02:58 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Species and Hybrids for the Gardener | Species tulips are becoming more widely available as gardeners wake up to their elegant shapes, vibrant-colored flowers, and suitability for growing in containers, raised beds, and rock gardens. Unlike garden hybrids, species tulips will flower each year without being replaced and will even colonize under the right conditions. ...

Tillandsia cyanea 'Pink Quill' - Air Plant (1127 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.09 2007 on 08:46:34 Topic: Plants / Other Match on Article's text

Lava rock from the Big Island of Hawaii is hand selected to provide a home for your Pink Quill Tillandsia plant. These exotic plants thrive on their rock homes and make excellent house, dormitory or office plants! ...

Potentilla nepalensis 'Emilie' - Cinquefoil (835 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 09:29:03 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Double mahogany red with yellow blotches. Large leaves. Performs best in full sun and well-drained soil. Does not like extremes of heat or cold. Very useful in the rock garden or for ground cover in the perennial border. ...

Tropical Garden Design (756 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.05 2007 on 11:47:06 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Made Wijaya, landscape designer to such high-profile gardens as those of rock icon David Bowie and the United States Ambassador in Jakarta, shares his brilliant garden designs and offers advice for both novice gardeners and professionals on creating similar results in their own backyards. Exploring Wijayas many gardens, including water gardes, Balinese gardens, paths and paving, floating pavilions, courtyards, roof gardens, ad more, the designer reveals his expert techniques and practical tips f ...

The Garden Succulents Primer (446 readers)

Contributed by amazon 16.09 2008 on 09:14:12 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Succulents and rock garden plants have become popular for their ease of cultivation, diversity of form, and striking colors. Their natural drought tolerance makes them especially useful for gardens in arid climates and water-conserving gardens . ...

Teucrium chamaedrys - Wall Germander (727 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.08 2007 on 10:03:39 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Germanders offer a small, tight, shrub-like presence in the garden, with tiny, shiny, fragrant, evergreen leaves. Wall Germander has thrived for us as a wide, low (6) edging above a rock wall, looking beautiful every day of the year and drawing many questions during our guided garden walks. Delicate spires of pale pink flowers top the plant in early summer; a shearing after bloom keeps foliage dense and beautiful. Germanders love to grow in full sun, require good drainage, and are quite tolerant ...

Indigofera pseudotinctoria 'Rose Carpet' - Dwarf False Indigo (1463 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.07 2007 on 07:44:56 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's text

A prostrate rug that blooms from late June until frost. This is much lower and dense than the species that we saw growing wild in Korea. Rich rose-pink spikes, 1-2 long cover this little shrub. Great for edging beds, walkways, or try in the rock garden. ...

Cutting Edge Gardening in the Intermountain West (498 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.07 2007 on 10:37:49 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The first complete gardening book to cover the hot, dry, desert and plains areas of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming, Idaho, Montana. Topics include: extensive plant lists for all areas, hardscape ideas using rock and wood, where to find garden art and how to use it to create your own regional aesthetic, as well as hundreds of practical suggestions to overcome the challenges of gardening in the Intermountain West. ...

Hepatica transsilvanica 'Blue Jewel' - Blue Jewel Hepatica (1069 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.07 2007 on 10:12:12 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Hepatica transsilvanica Blue Jewel Origin: The species is native to Romania. Masses of starry deep-blue flowers provide rich decoration in early spring over evergreen, mats of leathery, deep-green, tri-lobed foliage. This selection has larger flowers than the species and a very good color. Can be grown in a wide range of conditions, but does especially well in alkaline soil, which should be moist but with good drainage. Sun or shade. Good under deciduous trees, in raised beds or in the rock gard ...

Herniaria glabra - Green Carpet (1270 readers)

Contributed by amazon 03.09 2007 on 10:24:24 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

This lovely bright green creeper spreads effortlessly in all directions filling up to two feet per plant. A fairly flat plant of about two inches, it has one long tap root (as opposed to many surface roots like a Creeping Thyme) which helps with water conservation. It likes full sun but it can take partial shade. Related to Carnations and Dianthus. Foliage turns red during winter for great winter interest. Tiny white star flowers in summer. Perfect for walkways, rock garden paths or as a lawn su ...

Gardens (774 readers)

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An Essay on the Human Condition | Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. ...

Daphnes (1049 readers)

Contributed by amazon 03.04 2007 on 11:08:39 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Practical Guide for Gardeners | This intensely practical account drawn from the long experience of Robin White has been eagerly awaited by Daphne enthusiasts and collectors. Acute observation of the growth, flowering characteristics, and foibles of daphnes documented here will be studied and taken up by gardeners everywhere. A diverse genus, Daphne has a wide distribution ensuring suitable candidates for a variety of garden situations including shade positions, sunny borders, raised beds, cont ...

Hardy Gingers (869 readers)

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Including Hedychium, Roscoea, and Zingiber (Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Guide) | Flamboyant members of the family Zingiberaceae---including Hedychium, Curcuma, Roscoea, and Zingiber---are once again on the wanted list as people discover their intricately constructed flowers, beautiful perfumes, and lush foliage. Although the majority of gingers originate in the tropics, a substantial number come from temperate zones or high altitudes and are perfectly at home in the temperate gar ...

Dwarf Campanulas: And Associated Genera (844 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 18:47:40 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Campanulas have long been a gardeners favourite, their spectacular summer performance earning them a place in the herbaceous border year after year. Here their lesser-known relatives, the smaller dwarf campanulas, take centre stage. Everyone who grows campanulas will enjoy this book, finding uses for the diminutive yet exuberant forms at the front of the border as well as in rock gardens, alpine houses, troughs, and containers. ...

Gardening on Pavement, Tables, and Hard Surfaces (1109 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 19:13:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Gardening on Pavement, Tables, and Hard Surfaces is the first book to describe how to grow garden plants directly on hard surfaces such as pavement, rocks, tables, and other impermeable platforms. Plants have known all along that they can grow on these media, and George Schenk translates this small miracle into practical language for gardeners. ...

Tsuga canadensis 'Dwarf Upright' - Canadian Hemlock (1407 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.07 2007 on 07:53:10 Topic: Plants / Conifers Match on Article's text

AA dwarf, upright variety of Canadian Hemlock. Small, dark green leaves on thin upright branches. Grows 4-6 inches a year. Plant was cultivar sold in the 1970s by John Mitsch Nursery, Aurora, Oregon. ...

Irises (724 readers)

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A Gardeners Encyclopedia | The most comprehensive and up-to-date encyclopedia of irises available. Irises are beloved by enthusiasts who garden in a wide variety of zones, including hot and dry, temperate, and even cold northern climates. Irises bloom in every imaginable color-revealed here in more than 1100 captivating photographs-from deepest purples, blues, and reds through strong pinks, yellows, and oranges to pastels in every shade. ...

Ilex crenata 'Dwarf Pagoda' - Japanese Holly (2752 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.10 2007 on 09:13:04 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Article's text

Japanase Pagoda Holly Bonsai - Ilex crenata Dwarf Pagoda A miniature variety of Japanese Holly. Stems are very short, 1 foot at most. Leaves are dark green on horizontal branches. Very compact plant. The plant is a true natural Bonsai. Also a good patio plant or house plant. Introduced by the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. Height and spread in 10 years: 12 x 12. Prefers sun. Hardy in zones 6-9. In cooler regions grow as a house plant in a sunny, yet cool window. ...