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Practical Science for Gardeners (469 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.04 2007 on 10:12:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Informative and entertaining, this book will stimulate experimentation and encourage gardeners to review and improve their current gardening practices. Once gardeners learn how plants are constructed, it is easier to envision how theyll grow and flourish. An understanding of the structure behind good, healthy soil gives clues as to how to improve ones own garden tilth. ...

Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners (411 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.12 2007 on 12:00:03 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Christopher Lloyd was one of the worlds most outspoken and adventurous gardeners. In this, his last book, he offers his unique perspective on creating hot and steamy planting schemes wherever you garden. It features his most extravagant plantings in the famous borders and pot displays that delight and excite, and sometimes shock, visitors to his garden, Great Dixter. ...

Hollies for Gardeners (647 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.04 2007 on 10:23:33 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Richly enshrouded in legend and superstition, valued for a wide variety of uses and prized by gardeners, hollies have always been part of our lives and gardens. Now they are enjoying a peak of popularity as gardeners wake up to their huge diversity of form, foliage and fruit, marvel at their adaptability, and appreciate the wide variety of situations in which they can be used. ...

The Naked Gardeners (449 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.08 2007 on 09:38:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

The story of the creation of an extraordinary garden that has been painstakingly and lovingly brought to life over the past ten years by the Pollards, who prefer to garden au natural. It will appeal to both experienced and aspiring gardeners everywhere. ...

The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (809 readers)

Contributed by amazon 29.03 2007 on 12:08:32 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

This encyclopedia by a distinguished American horticulturist is the most authoritative and best-illustrated reference ever published on ornamental grasses. Rick Darke has been studying and photographing grasses in gardens and native landscapes around the world for more than 20 years, and this book includes the best 500 photographs from his collection of nearly 15,000. ...

Lilies (629 readers)

Contributed by amazon 26.04 2007 on 14:48:08 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Beautiful, easy-to-grow cultivars. | For centuries, adventurous botanists risked their lives to gather exquisite specimens from remote, perilous locations. Fortunes were spent shipping the lilies back to royalty and collectors who treasured them. Lilies gained a reputation with gardeners for being difficult plants: fussy, sulky, prone to a lingering death. This characterization, thankfully, is coming to an end. ...

Alpine Plants (841 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:34:38 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Ecology for Gardeners. Alpine Plants: Ecology for Gardeners explores ecosystems above the treeline on mountains and beyond the treeline in sub-polar regions from a gardeners perspective. It looks at the effects of geology and soils, low temperatures, precipitation, drought, and snow on the morphology and life cycles of alpine plants - including perennial herbs and grasses, annuals and biennials, prostrate and dwarf shrubs, bulbs, and cushion plants. ...

Hostas (Gardener's Guide to Growing Series) (2671 readers)

Contributed by amazon 24.11 2006 on 11:07:31 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

As most gardeners have had the pleasure to discover, there is a hosta for almost every garden situation. The Gardeners Guide to Growing Hostas is a beautiful, practical guide for both gardeners and collectors by one of the worlds leading hosta growers. It features essential advice on cultivation, propagation, and garden uses as well as an AZ plant directory listing over 400 cultivars and forms. ...

Pots in the Garden (723 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:53:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Expert Design and Planting. No longer a technique just for apartment dwellers or novice gardeners, the use of ornamental containers on decks, patios, terraces, and in the garden itself can save time, space, and money, while offering experienced home gardeners unique creative challenges, site flexibility, and experimental fun. ...

Bulbs in Containers (573 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.04 2007 on 11:20:26 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Fantastic color photographs and excellent writing make this an inspirational and accessible guide for specialty plant collectors, alpine and rock gardeners, and city gardeners, as well as anyone gardening in small spaces. Readers will learn about the ease and practicality of growing bulbs in containers — bringing year-round color and interest to ones home. Popular classic bulbs are included, as well as a range of more unusual varieties such as the delicate-looking but surprisingly unfussy coryda ...

The Collector's Garden (671 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:16:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Now in paperback, this classic book invites gardeners into some of Americas most fascinating private gardens. Through over 400 color photographs of 28 gardens across the country, Ken Druse shows how gardeners can collect plants for their pleasure, without sacrificing their devotion to the natural garden or abandoning good design. Listings of plant sources, societies, and organizations have been updated for this edition. ...

Impatiens (624 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. ...

Delphiniums (1108 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 11:01:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Gardeners throughout the world love these majestic tall flowers, but few are aware of the many colors and forms that are now available with the burst of new cultivars, several of which have been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Not just blue, but red, pink, violet, yellow, and white forms exist to entice gardeners. Expert authors bring all their expertise and enthusiasm to this book, which is a much-awaited publication on a plant that offers much to the gardener. Introducing both wild and ...

Gardening with Good Bugs (345 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.04 2008 on 09:13:17 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Aiding readers in distinguishing between bugs that are beneficial to a garden’s health and those that are harmful and disruptive, this guidebook will help gardeners reduce and eliminate insects without using chemical pesticides. With expert horticulture tips—from cultivating plants that attract helpful bugs to discovering common cures that ward off destructive insects—this resource teaches how to use nature to nurture a garden. Detailed illustrations on dozens of the most common bugs provide gar ...

Agapanthus for Gardeners (653 readers)

Contributed by amazon 19.05 2007 on 09:11:08 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Agapanthus have been cultivated and hybridized extensively since they were first brought to the attention of botanists and gardeners in the 17th century. Native to South Africa, the genus includes 6 species and 14 subspecies, both deciduous and evergreen, and more than 600 interesting and dramatic cultivars. Flowers range in color from pure white through greyish-blue to very dark blue, and plants vary from delightful miniatures for smaller gardens or containers to more imposing forms suitable fo ...

The Art of South Florida Gardening (494 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.07 2007 on 10:37:16 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

South Florida residents know that gardening advice for the rest of the country just doesnt apply here. South Florida is unique, and this book is uniquely intended for south Florida gardeners, who have depended on its advice since the first edition came out over a decade ago. Now updated with more helpful facts, tips, and advice for the conservation-conscious gardener of the 21st century, the book maintains the practical, easygoing attitude south Florida gardeners have enjoyed over the years. ...

Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths (876 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.04 2007 on 09:33:14 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Warm-Climate Plants for Cooler Areas | Palms that grow in Canada? Bananas that overwinter in Michigan? How about southern crape myrtles that flower in Birmingham, England, instead of Birmingham, Alabama? Although the voice of authority — and nursery labels — might say, You cant grow those plants here, author Dave Francko has a different message for gardeners: Plants cant read the information on their tags. Laced with humorous anecdotes and based on years of first-hand observations and research, ...

Complete Roses (247 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.01 2008 on 09:44:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Featuring 100 Easy-Growing Favorites | Complete Guide to Roses is ideal for would-be gardeners who were always afraid to grow roses, as well as for gardeners who already grow these lovely flowers and want to learn more about them. This comprehensive book takes all the mystery out of growing these plants, but leaves the beauty. Through text and lavishly illustrated step-by-step instructions, readers learn how to select roses that are tough and dependable in their climate, prepare and maintain the ...

Witch Hazels (681 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.04 2007 on 10:38:01 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Guide | Once discovered, witch hazels capture the hearts of gardeners who rank them among the best of all winter-flowering shrubs. Shrugging off several degrees of frost and a heavy weight of snow, their distinctive flowers held on bare branches cannot fail to light up a garden in the depths of winter. Yet, despite their attributes, only a small number are widely grown outside the gardens of enthusiasts. This book promises to change all that by turning ...

Buddlejas (797 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.04 2007 on 10:50:50 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Guide | This authoritative book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the popular and varied genus Buddleja. Buddlejas are wonderful garden plants whose tolerance of drought, many soil conditions, and common pests ensures them a place in every garden. Highly attractive to butterflies, moths, and other insects, the flowers of buddlejas come in a huge range of shapes and colors. ...