Western Garden

Western Garden Book (1837 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.02 2007 on 16:35:45 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking 8th edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of them new--its THE essential book for gardeners in the Western states. ...

Serene Gardens (428 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.04 2008 on 21:44:34 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden | With their superbly shaped trees and shrubs, subtly colored foliage, and emphasis on nature in its pure state, Japanese Zen gardens are spaces of beauty and tranquility. Serene Gardens is an exquisitely illustrated introduction to the style and its traditions—and the only book that explains how to use western plants and materials to achieve the minimalist look beloved by Japanese garden designers. Gardeners will find plant lists; climat ...

Niwaki (858 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.04 2007 on 09:59:06 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Pruning, Training and Shaping Japanese Garden Trees | Over the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden trees, or niwaki . In this highly practical book, Western gardeners are encouraged to draw upon the techniques and sculpt their own garden trees to unique effect. ...

Classic Bonsai of Japan (852 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.04 2007 on 08:09:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on 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. ...

Darmera peltata - Umbrella Plant (699 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.09 2007 on 10:47:17 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Hardy Umbrella Plant - Darmera peltata Family: Saxifragaceae Origin: The species is native to western United States. Large, rounded clusters of red-centered, blush-white flowers rise on thick stalks before the clumped growth of massive (18 across), orbicular, lobed foliage emerges. ...

The Gardener's Peony (748 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.04 2007 on 11:43:59 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Peonies are virtually unrivalled in a their ability to bring impact and drama to a garden. Once established they flourish for decades, bringing large quantities of flamboyant blooms in a magical range of hues and outstanding, often finely cut foliage. This informative guide highlights the best peonies for gardeners, paying particular attention to the tree peonies, herbaceous hybrids and the latest cultivars of Paeonia lactiflora.The Chinese have been growing tree peonies for 1600 years but these ...

The Colorado Gardener's Companion (614 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.10 2007 on 09:40:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

An Insiders Guide to Gardening in the Centennial State (Gardening Series) | Detailed, easy-to-understand information about the ins and outs of gardening in Colorado, from a Colorado master gardener, with advice from state gardening writers, horticulturists, and other local experts. ...

Gardens (606 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.06 2008 on 07:36:12 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

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. ...

Creating Bonsai Landscapes (1261 readers)

Contributed by amazon 29.03 2007 on 11:50:36 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

18 Miniature Garden Projects - Western home and garden design has been increasingly influenced in recent years by ancient Eastern traditions. Feng shui masters are now routinely consulted by architects and interior designers, and bonsai gardening continues to fascinate and inspire. ...

New Garden Design Inspiring Private Paradises (584 readers)

Contributed by amazon 17.07 2008 on 11:23:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens , New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Ber ...

The Garden Plants of China (759 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.04 2007 on 09:57:00 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Gardens have long been an integral part of Chinese culture, written about by scholars and prized by emperors and priests; think of Chinese scrolls traced with plum blossoms and wood-block prints etched with pine branches or bamboo. The West has not only received a great number of fine plants from China, its also been influenced by the Chinese appreciation of plants, by their ideas on striving to have something in bloom year-round, and by their treasuring shape as well as bloom. A surprising numb ...

Impatiens (746 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.12 2007 on 12:06:46 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Vibrant World of Busy Lizzies, Balsams, and Touch-me-nots | Many gardeners know of Impatiens walleriana , the species that lies behind the myriad colorful garden varieties that brighten up containers, window boxes, and shady spots throughout the world. The genus Impatiens is enormous, comprising over a thousand species—many of which, although highly desirable, remain lilttle known to Western gardeners. ...

Dirr's Trees and Shrubs for Warm Climates (866 readers)

Contributed by amazon 13.04 2007 on 08:44:05 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

An Illustrated Encyclopedia | Following the phenomenal success of Dirrs Hardy Trees and Shrubs, written for gardeners in the climates of USDA zones 3–6, this companion volume is a superlative photographic encyclopedia of trees, shrubs, and vines for warm temperate zones. In North America, these areas (zones 7–11) stretch from the Mid-Atlantic states to the South, include most of Texas and the Southwest, and encompass the entire West Coast, up to western Canada. Many parts of the British Isles, A ...

Conifers: The Illustrated Encyclopedia (3580 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.10 2006 on 18:36:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Landscape Journal This magnificent pictorial encyclopedia includes not only the latest cultivars but also rarities such as Wollemia nobilis , recently discovered in Australia. From towering redwoods photographed in their coastal habitat to recent dwarf varieties so popular in small gardens, conifers are presented in all their astonishing diversity. ...

Hacienda Courtyards (2039 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.11 2007 on 09:50:52 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Mexican Design Books | Explore the architectural elements and water havens that will inspire your own courtyard paradise. ...