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Peter Fudge Gardens (274 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.05 2008 on 09:28:28 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

For anyone wanting to improve their outdoor space, whether professional landscaper or new homeowner, this guide will provide inspiration and advice on a variety of modern garden design techniques. From tiny urban courtyards to sprawling country properties, award-winning designer Peter Fudge shares his cutting-edge approach, and demonstrates how it can be applied in all garden settings—no matter what the style, size, or shape. ...

Wily Violets and Underground Orchids (677 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.04 2007 on 21:53:18 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Revelations of a Botanist | In this book, Peter Bernhardt takes us on a grand tour of the botanical realm, weaving engaging descriptions of the lovely shapes and intriguing habits of flowering plants with considerations of broader questions, such as why there are only six basic shapes of flowers and why the orchid family is so numerous and so bizarre. Everyone from amateur naturalists and gardeners to plant scientists will find Wily Violets and Underground Orchids a lively guide to botanical lor ...

DVD Encyclopedia of Roses (434 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.06 2007 on 10:52:43 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's text

In this fact-filled DVD, hosts Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank show how you can produce more roses and better plants than ever before! You will learn to plant bare root and container grown bushes for long-term flowering, the right timing and correct techniques for pruning, the importance of fertilizers for plant growth and flowering, how to select and use products for pest and disease control, why summer deadheading is more than just the removal of faded flowers, and much more! Author, journ ...

DVD Encyclopedia of Garden Design & Renovation (444 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.06 2007 on 11:03:17 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's text

In this informative two-part DVD, hosts Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank demonstrate how to turn a bare-earth plot into a lush, beautiful garden. Includes everything from planning, selecting the right tools, soil preparing, & laying a new lawn. The hosts then offer the best long-term approach to dealing with an overgrown or derelict garden. With a host of easy and practical tips, they will show how to quickly restore your garden to its full potential! Author, journalist and TV personality ...

Bonsai with Japanese Maples (1100 readers)

Contributed by amazon 29.03 2007 on 11:45:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

With their delicate foliage, seasonal color changes, and intricate pattern of branching, Japanese maples are among the most popular and suitable plants for bonsai design. In this long-awaited book, internationally renowned expert Peter Adams discusses both the specific horticultural needs of Japanese maples as bonsai subjects and illustrates proven techniques for creating and maintaining beautiful specimens. ...

Timber Press Pocket Guide to Japanese Maples (672 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.04 2007 on 19:21:13 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Timber Press Pocket Guide to Japanese Maples describes and illustrates 300 of the most widely available Japanese maples in North America and Europe. Along with basic information on cultivation and maintenance, it provides lists of trees for specific landscape uses, enabling gardeners to select the best trees for various garden conditions. Fifty newer cultivars are presented, including four outstanding trees that are expected to become very popular in the near future. ...

Timber Press Pocket Guide to Japanese Maples (601 readers)

Contributed by amazon 20.04 2007 on 08:24:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Good Gardens Guide 2007 (536 readers)

Contributed by amazon 16.09 2007 on 05:17:46 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Good Gardens Guide is the essential independent reference book for all garden visitors and enthusiasts ...

The Rose's Kiss (599 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.04 2007 on 21:47:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Natural History Of Flowers | Flowers bring joy and beauty to our lives, from the smallest patch of daisies outside our window to the elaborate floral decorations on display at weddings, banquets, and funerals. As well as offering aesthetic benefits, they teach us much about how the world works-each blossom is a living factory that manufactures organs and compounds ranging from the flavonoids that make a rose red to the pollen that gives us hayfever. ...

The Garden Plants of China (649 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 ...

Choosing and Growing Bonsai (491 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.07 2007 on 22:50:38 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Bonsai are both eye-catching and extremely popular—and this directory of more than 80 trees details their characteristics and explains how to look after them to get the best results. With stunning photography, and detailed instructions for choosing and growing a plant, it’s ideal for both beginners and enthusiasts alike. There’s advice on essential tools and getting started, on maintaining trees throughout the year, and on solving such frequently encountered problems as dropped or browning leave ...

Gardens of North Carolina (436 readers)

Contributed by amazon 05.07 2007 on 14:46:50 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Travelers Guide | From the amazing North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville to the wonderous Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham, this full-color guide presents the beauty of tourist gardens in the Tarheel State. Explore the majestic Elizabethan Garden in Manteo. Wander the historic gardens of North Carolinas first capitol at Tryon Palace. Find natural beauty near an urban setting at Wing Haven Gardens in Charlotte. The gardens are organized by region and surveyed individually, with visitor informati ...

Japanese Garden Design (890 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.10 2007 on 10:25:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The creation of a Japanese garden combines respect for nature with adherence to simple principles of aesthetics and structure. In Japanese Garden Design , landscape architect Marc Peter Keane presents the history and development of the classical metaphors that underlie all Japanese gardens. ...

Insects of the Pacific Northwest (606 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.04 2007 on 10:03:39 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Timber Press Field Guide | The only comprehensive guide to insects of the Pacific Northwest, this handy reference is perfect for hikers, fishers, and naturalists. With coverage from southwestern British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the high desert, it describes more than 450 species of common, easily visible insects and some noninsect invertebrates, including beetles, butterflies and moths, dragonflies, grasshoppers, crickets, cicadas, flies, bees, wasps, ants, spiders, mil ...

The Color Encyclopedia of Cape Bulbs (517 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.04 2007 on 10:14:01 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

This first complete account of all the bulbous plants of the Cape Floral Region is an essential aid to the identification of all species presently in cultivation. ...

Japanese Maples (2161 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.09 2006 on 16:48:15 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

This is among the first books published by Timber Press, and after more than two decades it continues to be one of our signature bestsellers. A comprehensive source of information on the culture, identification, and nomenclature of Japanese maples , it describes each of the 320 cultivars of Acer palmatum and 60 cultivars of other Japanese maple species, plus briefly mentions 150 promising new plants. The index lists every horticultural name published, ensuring that Japanese Maples will continue ...

In the Company of Stone (393 readers)

Contributed by amazon 15.10 2007 on 21:03:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

“Finding stone, choosing it, and letting go of it are the three things a waller does. I’d miss any one of them too much if I asked someone else to do them for me. I may work by myself, but I’m not alone. I’m in the company of stone.” ...

A Modern Garden (2326 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 10:00:18 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art | In the Fall of 2004, The Museum of Modern Art completed a major expansion and renovation of its famous midtown Manhattan building, doubling the Museums size and introducing dynamic new galleries and public spaces. At the core of the remodeled Museum, designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi, is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, newly restored to its 1953 dimensions. ...

The Jade Garden (560 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.04 2007 on 10:30:51 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

New and Notable Plants from Asia | The Jade Garden is an authoritative guide to 130 of the most fascinating yet little-known ornamental trees, shrubs, and perennials from the green mantle of Asia. Based on detailed research and observation at one of the largest and oldest collections of Asian plants in North America, the subjects of this book were chosen for their superior garden qualities, their rarity in everyday horticulture, and their commercial availability. From an extraordinary, nearly bl ...

Making the Modern Garden (1191 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.12 2007 on 09:55:07 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A superlative analysis of contemporary gardens as well as fascinating collection of landscapes around the world, Making the Modern Garden is a definitive study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the process of garden design in a presentation of modern landscapes at all sizes and locations. Among the designers in the book are Fernando Caruncho, Peter Walker, Kat ...