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Contributed by amazon 28.03 2007 on 12:47:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textPacked with photos, including 8 pages in full color. Color your world with orchids. Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But arent they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants. ...
Contributed by amazon 25.01 2008 on 09:44:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textFeaturing 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 ...
Contributed by amazon 30.06 2007 on 10:52:43 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's textIn 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 ...
Contributed by amazon 27.05 2008 on 11:05:16 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textA 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. ...
Contributed by amazon 27.07 2007 on 08:13:38 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textFIRE BALL® has the brilliant red fall color to be expected of burning bush. Plant it among spring and summer flowering shrubs for a jolt of color in the fall. Also makes an unusual bonsai! Euonymus alatus Select ...
Contributed by amazon 07.05 2007 on 11:49:45 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textA Gardeners Guide | Plants for Tropical Landscapes will help you select and group plants to create a successful tropical garden tailored to your needs and tastes. Gardeners and landscapers will find this treasury of more than 500 common plants easy to use and one of the most comprehensive guides available today. ...
Contributed by amazon 09.04 2007 on 19:21:13 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThe 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. ...
Contributed by amazon 20.04 2007 on 08:24:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThe 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. The guide is a valuable ...
Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 18:55:24 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textFor centuries, carnivorous plants have carried an air of fascination and mystique unparalleled in the plant world. Growing Carnivorous Plants is a comprehensive guide to identifying and cultivating these remarkable plants. From the well-known Venus flytrap to obscure African sundews, from the giant pitcher plant vines of Borneo the microscopic bladderworts of Florida, more than 200 species, hybrids and cultivars from all genera of carnivorous plants are described. ...
Contributed by amazon 20.04 2008 on 21:47:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textAs gardeners become increasingly concerned with both drought and water conservation, plants that love the sun are an attractive option. From white flowering hawthorns to richly scented wisteria, they come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, with endless potential for producing stunning planting schemes. You’ll find success with this vividly illustrated volume, which shows how to select the best sun-friendly varieties and plant them with confidence—whatever your experience. ...
Contributed by amazon 30.03 2007 on 11:16:14 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textOrchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acquire a different orchid every day for eighty years and still not grow them all. Back in the realm of reality, readers of this beautiful book can quickly and easily find the orchids that are right for them -- which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. ...
Contributed by amazon 04.06 2007 on 09:50:10 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textInspiring amateur gardeners and enthusiasts to undertake more in-depth projects including choosing the right grasses for planting in the shade, beautiful artistic impressions of the completed projects and a vast selection of stunning photographs provide a fascinating insight into what can be achieved by correct planting. ...
Contributed by amazon 06.09 2006 on 21:28:15 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textIdeal for would-be growers who were always afraid of roses, as well as for gardeners who already grow these beautiful flowers and want to learn more. Over 400 beautiful color photographs and 40 watercolor paintings. ...
Contributed by havlis 15.02 2008 on 08:27:48 Topic: Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Match on Article's textThese hybrid azaleas come from New Jersey, USA, and were developed by Robert Gartrell. The aim was to select and further breed cultivars with the best performace, extending their flowering period and keeping majority of leaves in winter months ...
Contributed by havlis 04.02 2009 on 14:44:45 Topic: Plants / Bulbs Match on Article's textLilies are not just beautiful cut flowers . In perennial beds same as carefully planted among shrubs or trees they will dazzle with bright colours, shapes, and sizes of their blooms. And be sure we select the grandest of the great ones only! ...
Contributed by amazon 18.09 2007 on 11:28:54 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textDeveloped especially for use by backyard orchardists, rare fruit growers, and small-scale growers, The Home Orchard offers a comprehensive look at standard growing methods, as well as some innovative practices that enthusiasts have developed in recent years, some of which are uniquely suited to the small-scale grower. You will learn how trees grow, which species grow best in the different regions and soils, varieties from which to select, preparing the soil, planting, watering and fertilizing, p ...
Contributed by amazon 15.10 2007 on 21:11:36 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThe must-have ingredient of any garden, herbs have long been the stalwarts of the cottage garden, imparting fragrance and health as well as flavor to beds and borders. However, todays garden designers have realized that herbs can also help to shape or be a key visual element in a garden. The Romantic Herb Garden shows how you can design with herbs, using these plants in an innovative and bold way as either a backdrop to or even the star of any garden scheme. ...
Contributed by amazon 29.03 2007 on 11:50:36 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text18 Miniature Garden Projects - Western home and garden design has been increasingly influenced in recent years by ancient Eastern traditions. Feng shui masters are now routinely consulted by architects and interior designers, and bonsai gardening continues to fascinate and inspire. ...
Contributed by abies 21.11 2007 on 11:49:59 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Match on Article's textA very beautiful, small, North American bush or tree that is attractive in all seasons, even in winter when its spreading crown of fine shoots makes a satisfying, dense, shrubby shape. In March the branches erupt with a froth of delicate star-shaped white flowers in lax conical heads, just as the coppery pink young leaves unfold. They are silky and first bronze, then maturing to dark green and finally turn orange, scarlet and crimson in autumn. ...
Contributed by amazon 31.08 2007 on 10:29:12 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textFrom Canada’s leading garden expert comes a unique and practical step-by-step guide to creating the garden of your dreams. With her inimitable charm and boundless knowledge, noted gardener and author Marjorie Harris establishes the template for creating the garden that is right for your tiny urban plot, barren suburban tract, overgrown meadow, condo roof or balcony. Packed with practical advice, helpful sidebars and attractive photographs, How to Make a Garden takes you through Marjorie’s seven ...
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