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Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials and Half-Hardy Perennials

Orchid Grower's Companion: Cultivation, Propagation, and Varieties

Teaming with Microbes (1039 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.04 2007 on 10:26:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Gardeners Guide to the Soil Food Web | Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life - not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. ...

Delia's Kitchen Garden (470 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.03 2008 on 13:26:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Beginners Guide to Growing and Cooking Fruit and Vegetables | Follow a year in the life of Delia’s kitchen garden while creating your own organic garden. With 56 enticing recipes and 300 colour photographs, it’s sure to be a labour of love. ...

Wild Food Plants of Indiana and Adjacent States (671 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.08 2007 on 10:17:14 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

This delightful field guide to wild foods describes more than eighty edible plants that grow in Indiana and adjacent states and gives directions for delicious ways-many originals, all tested in the field- of preparing them. The guide provides a plant perspective of Indiana and a seasonal guide to foraging, which tells what plants to look for at each season of the year. A detailed description and a drawing are given for each plant or plant family, along with its preferred habitats, its distributi ...

Natural Gardening in Small Spaces (911 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. ...

The Pruning Book (993 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.03 2007 on 11:42:17 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

It is unlikely that the basics of pruning have ever before been assembled so thoroughly or comprehensively than in Lee Reichs The Pruning Book . With clear prose and generous diagrams and photographs, he takes the angst out of pruning for the beginning or experienced gardener. Included are all the basics presented in a step-by-step, friendly way to guide the reader through the pruning of ornamental bushes, evergreens, vines, trees, houseplants, and plants of almost every conceivable variety. ...

Achillea millefolium 'Fire King' - Yarrow, Milfoil, Staunchweed (1168 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.06 2007 on 18:27:32 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Get a good view of hummers as they feed from the clusters of rosy-red nectar-rich flowers. This unusual Yarrow is a virtually foolproof perennial. Covered in blooms from late spring to early fall, it provides a long season of color and food. Large clusters of bright blooms atop 15-20 stems with fernlike foliage yield abundant nectar. Excellent for bouquets and dried arrangements. Plant 18-24 apart. Bare-root plant fully guaranteed. Zones 3-9. ...

Helichrysum italicum - Curry Plant, Immortelle (1002 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.06 2007 on 08:23:09 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Curry Plant looks very similar to a Lavender in its leaf stage. But, it looks totally different in bloom. Curry Plant likes it warm and dry. It is native to Turkey and thrives on sunny slopes. ...

Organic Garden Basics (550 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 ...

The Landscaping Ideas of Jays (525 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:46:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on 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 Kids (425 readers)

Contributed by amazon 21.02 2008 on 09:02:42 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Children find gardening fun and fascinatingwatching a bean sprout or a pumpkin grow bigger every day can seem like a miracle, as well as a huge achievement. And gardening can help kids connect to and understand more about nature, the seasons, and the food we eat. In Gardening with Kids, Catherine Woram and Martyn Cox tell you everything you need to know, from choosing and preparing your site, and growing from seeds, bulbs, and cuttings, to choosing plants from the local garden center. ...

THE DAYLILY - A plant for all climates (3250 readers)

Contributed by eurocallis 14.09 2006 on 18:07:11 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

It is not surprising that daylilies have become so popular. They are amongst the most beautiful flowering plants, bloom prolifically over a long period and come in an enormous range of spectacular colours. ...

Saintpaulia 'Mickey Mouse' - African Violet (1287 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.12 2007 on 11:42:37 Topic: Plants / Houseplants Match on Article's text

Light: Moderate to bright, indirect, indoor light. Watering: Keep soil moist to dry, and allow soil around roots to dry out before watering to encourage blooming. Water from the bottom with room temperature water by placing the plastic growers pot in water, and allowing the plant to absorb the water (not more than 30 minutes). Avoid getting water on the leaves as this can cause spotting damage. For best results, use violet plant food as directed. ...

The Earth Knows My Name (587 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.07 2007 on 08:51:44 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America | nspired by her own familys immigrant history, Patricia Klindienst traveled the country, gathering stories of urban, suburban, and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in books about American gardens: Native Americans, immigrants from across Asia and Europe, and ethnic peoples who were here long before our national boundaries were drawn. In The Earth Knows My Name, she writes about the beautiful gardens she discovere ...

Perennial Vegetables (569 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.07 2007 on 10:35:29 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardeners Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles | There is a fantastic array of vegetables you can grow in your garden, and not all of them are annuals. In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food. ...

Saintpaulia 'EverSpecial' - African Violet (1107 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 09:45:44 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's text

Everfloris African Violets or Space Babies are one of the Newest and most popular series by Optimara: Continuously Blooming! The EverFloris is the first continuously blooming African Violet whch has beautiful wazy leaves and the flowers all have a stunning white-greenish edge. Theyre out of this world! ...

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (782 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:19:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Hemenway, a permaculture expert and associate editor of The Permaculture Activist, explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds. Guilds, the author tells us, are groups of plants that function as an ecosystem to provide products for humans, create cover and food for wildlife, nourish the soil, conserve water, and repel pests. A simple example of a g ...