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Contributed by amazon 12.04 2007 on 10:13:55 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textAn Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from the Rockies to Alaska | North America is replete with beautiful aplines, and this guide is equally useful to the traveler or the gardener for its identification, propagation, and cultivation information. ...
Contributed by amazon 12.04 2007 on 10:11:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textA Gardeners Guide | With this reference gardeners can successfully replicate alpine plants native conditions, allowing them to grow such choice alpines as gentians, daphnes, and Dianthus. Dramatic photographs and descriptions take readers through the Pyrenees, Alps, Balkans, and Carpathians to capture the charms of these unique mountain plants ...
Contributed by amazon 10.07 2007 on 14:08:04 Topic: Plants / Perennials Match on Article's textThe Columbine Denver Gold, Aquilegia chrysantha, has large, very showy, yellow flowers that can measure over 3 across. The fragrant flowers reflect the sunshine of their Rocky Mountain home. Denver Gold blooms in late spring, and if deadheaded, will be a heavy reblommer. With a spread of 15-20 and height of 24-30, you wont want to miss this. Hardy in zones 3-9. Prefers sun or partial sun. ...
Contributed by amazon 03.07 2007 on 09:55:56 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textCreating a Place of Beauty and Meaning | Julie Moir Messervy has written a classic garden book. Deeply literate and beautifully written, The Inward Garden gives the reader a process for designing ones dream garden. Based on garden archtypes: the sea, the cave, the harbor, the promitory, the island, the mountain, and the sky, this book provides a structure for imagining and designing the garden of ones desires. It is illustrated with outstanding garden photographs by the celebrated national geogr ...
Contributed by amazon 21.10 2007 on 11:59:07 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThe welcome, reassuring sight of wildflowers brings unexpected pleasures throughout the year. Sometimes subtle, sometimes extravagant, these random, uncultivated plants turn up in meadows, forests and mountain valleys, on riverbanks and roadsides, and in parks and swamps. They blanket entire fields in a swath of color. And although theyre common, they greet us in a most uncommon range of shapes, sizes and colors. Wildflowers 2008 is an enchanting collection displaying the work of world-renowned ...
Contributed by amazon 05.07 2007 on 14:56:24 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textWhat can possess a man to drive across state lines, mountain ranges, and international borders with little more than a ragged guide book, an old map, and a wild look in his eyes? Wild women? No, wild flowers ! Author Scott Calhoun invites you to join him on a rollicking adventure through Utah, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and into Sonora, Mexico. Along the way, learn how red chile on a white T-shirt can look like a gunshot wound, and how a man driving a VW Jetta with 100,000 ...
Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:10:38 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThe Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens | Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of Californias native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities--bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, ripari ...
Contributed by amazon 17.07 2008 on 11:23:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textFrom 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 ...
Contributed by amazon 02.10 2007 on 09:40:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textAn 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. ...
Contributed by amazon 10.10 2006 on 18:36:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textLandscape 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. ...
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