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The Shrub Identification Book: The Visual Method for the Practical Identification of Shrubs

Perennial Combinations (1063 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:12:18 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and 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. ...

Designer Plant Combinations (322 readers)

Contributed by amazon 16.09 2008 on 09:31:33 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

105 Stunning Gardens Using Six Plants or Fewer | For every gardener who has hesitated over plant pairings or wondered if an array of favorite plants will work well together in the garden, Designer Plant Combinations inspires and delights with professionally designed combinations using just two to six plants. Here are the secrets to combining French lavender with California fuchsia ; prairie coneflower with hummingbird mint ; and tall purple moor grass with dwarf Korean lilac in a small garden be ...

Covering Ground (538 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.07 2007 on 23:02:14 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Open sweeps of lawn are a large part of most home landscapes, but imagine turning those stretches of lawn into striking swathes of beautifully planted ground covers. Barbara W. Ellis explores hundreds of wonderful possibilities in her new guide, helping readers create eyecatching splashes of color and texture in unexpected places. ...

Design Your Natural Midwest Garden (480 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.07 2007 on 12:08:42 Topic: Other / Books Match on 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. ...

Tulipa 'Flaming Parrot' - Parrot Tulip (578 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.07 2007 on 10:19:20 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's text

Yellow creamy , soft yellow with bright red flames, inside golden yellow with blood red flames. Specially selected tulips for their unique beauty and characteristics. Parrot tulips with their exotic shape, color and design, are the largest and most spectacular of all tulips. They resemble their namesake, colorful tropical birds. Frilled, ruffled and flared petals are splashed and striped with brilliant color combinations that are unlike those of any other tulip. They make gorgeous cut flowers. ...

Great Garden Companions (826 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:16:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on 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! ...

The Gardener's Palette (520 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.05 2008 on 11:05:16 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Year of Color in the Flower Garden | Approaching a flower garden as a blank canvas and the gardener as an artist, The Gardener’s Palette demystifies the somewhat daunting task of conceiving, planning, and planting a beautifully executed flower garden. ...

Gardening with Light & Colour (337 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.11 2007 on 11:53:37 Topic: Other / Books Match on 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. ...

Planting Design (630 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.04 2007 on 19:55:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Home gardeners with a keen interest in design, as well as professional landscape designers, will find invaluable advice in this new approach. The book focuses on the general principles behind creating successful and beautiful plant combinations in both time and space-working with perennials in the context of trees, shrubs, and the surrounding landscape. ...

The Art of Perennial Gardening (611 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.06 2007 on 19:58:39 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Creative Ways with Hardy Flowers | In The Art of Perennial Garding Patrick Lima shares the secrets and strategies he has gleaned from gardening in Ontarios Burce Peninsula, bringing a seasoned, pragmatic perspective to his latest work. ...

The Well-Designed Mixed Garden (875 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.04 2007 on 10:35:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

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 ...

Planting the Natural Garden (766 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:20:19 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Following on the success of Designing with Plants and Dream Plants for the Natural Garden , Piet Oudolfs landmark first book (co-authored by Henk Gerritsen), is now available in English. Thoroughly updated and revised, including several new chapters and many new photographs, it provides the definitive argument for the natural garden. This updated edition of the book that started the Dutch Wave, a movement that is now sweeping gardens from Europe to North America, shows how to plant a garden that ...

Foliage (469 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:52:50 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Plant foliage brings drama and structure to the garden with color, shape, and texture all its own. Bright, cheerful flowers may have beauty-pageant appeal that gets noticed by passers-by, but where would all those pretty floral faces be without the stalwart presence of foliage? Every garden benefits from an inspired selection of plants chosen for the beauty of their leaves, and the harmony their presence brings to the entire landscape. ...

Daylilies: The Perfect Perennial (3041 readers)

Contributed by amazon 26.09 2006 on 11:47:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Daylilies -- available in a rainbow of glowing colors and combinations of colors; able to survive with little or no care in a wide range of climates; boasting a variety of shapes and sizes; suitable for any kind of landscape; drought resistant and almost disease and insect free; adaptable to various soil and light conditions. By all accounts, daylilies are, indeed, the perfect perennial. In celebration of these satisfying plants, garden writers Lewis and Nancy Hill share the wisdom of their more ...

Creating Your Own Japanese Garden (775 readers)

Contributed by amazon 15.04 2007 on 19:09:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The strong horizontals of bamboo reflected in a dark circle of water; the rhythmic clap of the deer scarer; the contemplative beauty of waves created in sand: combinations of nature and art that soothe and uplift the spirit. Your vision of a Japanese garden need not be confined to Japan. Here is a fully comprehensive guiide which will enable you to capture in your home or office environment the elusive spirit of the Japanese garden-no matter where you live. ...

Faux Florals for All Occasions (793 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.12 2007 on 09:46:22 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Faux Florals for Every Occasion is a fresh approach to silk flower arranging. The author, a renowned floral designer, takes the reader beyond everyday expectations and inspires creativity with 40 sumptuous and contemporary designs. Remarkable advances have been made in the look and feel of silk flowers, and today hundreds of varieties are widely available. You can choose from traditional faux roses to slender lilies, delicate freesia and gossamer poppies all as vibrant and real looking as the fr ...

Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants (888 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.04 2007 on 08:37:06 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

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. ...