Vertical Gardening Grow up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space
By Fell, Derek
The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizingtheir large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labor. Vertical gardening guarantees a better outcome from the day the trowel hits the soil--by shrinking the amount of floor space needed and focusing on climbing plants that are less prone to insects, diseases, and animal pests.Notable author and gardener Derek Fell has tried and tested thousands of varieties of vegetables,flowers, and fruits and recommends the best plants for space-saving vertical gardening. His grow-up,grow-down system also shows which ground-level plants make good companions underneath and alongside climbing plants. Best of all, many of Fells greatest climbers and mutually beneficial plants are available in seed packets in every local garden center.
Publisher: n/a
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9781605290836
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Hardcover
Fine Gardening Beds & Borders
By Gardening, Editors & Contributors Of Fine
A collection of the most popular design ideas, planting solutions, and quick front- and backyard fixes that the editors of Fine Gardening have to offer. Fine Gardening Beds and Borders offers easy planting solutions for creating gardens that add color and texture, help zone a property, and offer maximum impact for minimum investment of time and money. Whether the goal is as ambitious as a front yard makeover or as simple as a little spruce-up around the mailbox, Beds and Borders is packed with eye-catching garden designs, advice on choosing the best plants, and strategies for keeping plants healthy and lush all season long.,
Publisher: n/a
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9781600858222
|
Paperback
Plantiful
By Green, Kristin
Whoever coined the phrase "money doesn't grow on trees" must not have been a resourceful gardener. While we may not be able to harvest physical money, with the right plants and techniques gardeners can rely on nature to give itself away for free. Plantiful shows you how to have an easy, gorgeous garden packed with plants by simply making the right choices. Kristen Green highlights plants that help a garden quickly grow by self-sowing and spreading and teaches you how to expand the garden and extend the life of a plant by overwintering. The book features plant profiles for 50 self-sowers (including columbine, milkweed, and foxglove), 50 spreaders (such as clematis, snow poppy, and spearmint), and 50 plants that overwinter (including lemon verbena, begonia, and Chinese hibiscus).
Publisher: n/a
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9781604693874
|
Paperback
Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces
By Morrison, Susan
Filled with design tips, plant ideas and over 200 photos, Garden Up! offers inspiration and how-to information for enhancing any outdoor space with vertical elements. Authors Morrison and Sweet cover everything from living wall projects simple enough for a home gardener to tackle to creative solutions for blank walls and narrow beds. In chapters like 'Arbors and Trellises' and 'Garden Secrets', the book offers a wealth of design advice and problem solving solutions for traditional gardeners. Small space gardeners, DIYers and those looking to incorporate the latest vertical techniques into their gardens will appreciate sections that examine 'skinny space' planting beds, urban gardens, edibles and living walls. In keeping with their problem solving approach to gardening and design, Morrison and Sweet have arranged theirplant picks chapter by solution rather than plant type.
Publisher: n/a
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9781591864929
|
Book
The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden
By Newcomb, Karen
This classic gardening bestseller (over 500,000 copies sold) uses ecologically friendly, intensive biodynamic methods to produce large amounts of vegetables in very tiny spaces. Revised for an all new generation of gardeners, the 40th anniversary edition includes brand new information on the variety of heirloom vegetables available today and how to grow them the postage stamp way. To accommodate today's lifestyles, a garden needs to fit easily into a very small plot, take as little time as possible to maintain, require a minimum amount of water, and still produce prolifically. That's exactly what a postage stamp garden does. Postage stamp gardens are as little as 4 by 4 feet, and, after the initial soil preparation, they require very little extra work to produce a tremendous amount of vegetables--for instance, a 5-by-5-foot bed will produce a minimum of 200 pounds of vegetables.
Publisher: n/a
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9781607746836
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Hellstrip Gardening
By Hadden, Evelyn
In this fresh and enchanting book, Evelyn Hadden invites you to use your gardening power to convert your "hellstrip" - the space between the street and the sidewalk - into a rewarding garden that generates smiles and celebrates nature. And you don't need to stop there: if you have some unused ground outside the fence, down the steps, or beside the driveway, you can turn it into a pocket garden bursting with beauty and character. You'll gain inspiration from twelve dazzling curbside gardens from coast to coast, discover what you need to know before jumping in, learn how to actually create your hellstrip garden, and become acquainted with 108 plants especially suited to curbside conditions. With just one small curbside garden, you can make your yard and neighborhood more fragrant, more lively, more peaceful, more interesting, more earth friendly, and more beautiful.
Publisher: n/a
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9781604693324
|
Book
Gardening Like a Ninja
By England, Angela
Turn your yard into the envy of the neighborhood while adding to your dinner table! Learn how to garden like a ninja as you sneak in plants that you can use for everyday cooking, creating a sustainable and beautiful landscape that's easy to maintain. Save time and money using the visually appealing and edible designs and harvest the fruits from your delicious paradise!
Publisher: n/a
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9781462118083
|
Print book
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
Publisher: n/a
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9780922433544
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Hardcover
The American Meadow Garden
By Greenlee, John
If theres one lesson every homeowner must learn, its this The traditional lawn is a huge, time consuming, synthetic-chemical sucking mistake. The time has come to look for new ways to create friendly, livable spaces around our homes.In The American Meadow Garden, ornamental grass expert John Greenlee creates a new model for homeowners and gardeners. For Greenlee, a meadow isnt a random assortment of messy, anonymous grasses. Rather, it is a shimmering mini-ecosystem, in which regionally appropriate grasses combine with colorful perennials to form a rich tapestry that is friendly to all life with minimal input of water, time, and other scarce resources. Kids and pets can play in complete safety, and birds and butterflies flock there. A prairie style planting is a place you want to be.
Publisher: n/a
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9780881928716
|
Hardcover
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
Publisher: n/a
|
9780922433544
|
Hardcover
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
Publisher: n/a
|
9780922433544
|
Hardcover
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
Publisher: n/a
|
9780922433544
|
Hardcover
Zen Gardens
By Locher, Mira
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly contemporary elements with the traditional design vernacular. He has worked in ultramodern urban hotels and in some of Japan's most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer of landscape architecture is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, "a special spiritual place where the mind dwells."This beautiful book, illustrated with more than 400 drawings and color photographs, is the first complete retrospective of Masuno's work to be published in English.
Publisher: n/a
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9784805311943
|
Hardcover
Gardening for the Birds
By Adams, George
You may already have a bird feeder in your yard, but you can attract a far wider range of species, and they will stay longer, if you create a bird-friendly landscape. Gardening for the Birds shows you how.With the right native plants, arranged to mimic natural ecosystems, you will provide birds with food, water, shelter, and nesting places. Instead of just visiting your garden to snack, birds will call it home.With hundreds of native plants, extensive seasonal bloom and fruiting charts, and the techniques for creating a balanced ecosystem, this book helps you turn any space -- from a small, urban terrace to a large suburban yard -- into a home for a fascinating variety of birds. Close-up profiles of birds from across all regions of North America teach you their nesting, breeding, and feeding habits.
Publisher: n/a
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9781604694093
|
Landscaping with Fruit
By Reich, Lee
Discover the joy of homegrown apples, fresh-picked cherries, and dozens of other fruits with this definitive guide to creating a more delicious backyard! Lee Reich shows you how to grow temperate-zone fruit at home, from site analysis and climate assessment through plant selection
Publisher: n/a
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9781603420914
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Landscaping for Small Spaces
By Bix, Cynthia Overbeck
Great Gardens for Small Spaces:
Plan your garden the way professional landscape designers do, using their secrets to maximize space and make the area seem larger Discover gardening space you didn't know you had - on hillsides and in narrow side yards, on decks and patios, up walls and even overhead Learn how to choose the best plants for a limited area; more than 80 suggested trees, vines, shrubs, perennials, and ground covers are described Use colorful photos of successful small gardens to guide you in finding your own garden style
Publisher: n/a
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9780376037060
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Book
Understanding Garden Design
By Apld, Vanessa Gardner Nagel
Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do you accommodate a client’s requests while maintaining the integrity of the project? The answers to these questions, and many more, can all be found in Understanding Garden Design.Most books on garden design focus on only one or a few aspects of garden design―choosing plants or creating a hardscape, for example. This comprehensive, accessible book lays out the entire process from start to finish in clear, precise language that avoids the pitfalls of “designspeak.” In fact, garden owners and clients of garden designers who want to understand more about the designer’s craft will be able to profit from the book’s lessons.
Publisher: n/a
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9780881929430
|
Hardcover
Frederick Law Olmsted
By Olmsted, Frederick Law
Lavishly illustrated with over 470 images -- 129 of them in color -- this book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and comprehensive descriptions. Bringing together Olmsted's most significant parks, parkways, park systems, and scenic reservations, this gorgeous volume takes readers on a uniquely conceived tour of such notable landscapes as Central Park, Prospect Park, the Buffalo Park and Parkway System, Washington Park and Jackson Park in Chicago, Boston's "Emerald Necklace," and Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec. No such guide to Olmsted's parks has ever been published.Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) planned many parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed and defended today.
Publisher: n/a
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9781421410869
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Hardcover
Royal Horticultural Society Small Garden Handbook
By Wilson, Andrew
A comprehensive guide to planning planting and maintaining a small garden This in-depth reference packs a lot of information and expert advice into one easy-to-use resource It is designed to help home gardeners discover the potential in a small piece of land and guide them step-by-step through the process of transforming it into a garden with oversized impact The book works forward from planning a garden and making difficult design choices to installation and maintenance Each chapter instructs on numerous related topics such as the examples below and presents an illustrative case study Basics - ways to reveal your plots potential understanding soil evaluating hardscaping making a plan Design - ways to make instant impact principles of design Styles - ways to find your style Style Portfolio Materials - ways to exploit materials simple rules of laying paving changes of level Boundaries - ways to buff up your boundaries materials plants Structures - ways to use garden structures storage hideaways green roofs raised beds an outdoor office Water - ways to enjoy water planning a pond mirror-like water dynamic water plants fish Planting - ways to improve a planting design habitats styles long-term and short-term design statements Upkeep - ways to simplify the garden seasonal and monthly housekeeping tasks The book also features an inspirational portfolio of small gardens and provides all the information needed to install these designs For example the handy steps to create lists cover Japanese Mediterranean Exotic Ecological Cottage-garden Arts and Crafts Modernist Conceptualist and Urban gardens Small Garden Handbook is ideal for the home gardener Each of the gardens featured in the books photographs provides exceptional inspiration for gardeners at all levels of expertise.
Publisher: n/a
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9781770851924
|
Paperback
Home Outside
By Messervy, Julie Moir
An Outside-the-Box Guide to Outdoor Living. Let's face it: most of us have the confidence to improve the inside of our homes with a fresh coat of paint, new rugs, furniture, and fixtures. But when it comes to the outside of our most prized possession, we don't know where to start. That's where Julie Moir Messervy's Home Outside comes in. The acclaimed landscape designer walks the reader through the process of turning any property into the home outside you've always dreamed of. Focusing on key concepts like Finding Your Comfort Zone and Placing the Pieces, Messervy presents breathtaking plans for remarkable front and back lawns, entertainment areas, and contemplative retreats, as well as innovative ways to create a better flow between the inside and outside of a house.
Publisher: n/a
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9781600850080
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Print book
Fences and Hedges
By Bird, Richard
Showing how to create and embellish fences, hedges, walls, plant screens, and trellises, this seventh volume in the series features 20 exciting projects, including a fruit wall, formal and informal hedges, a picket fence and a rose arch. 50 color photos and 300 illustrations.
Vertical Gardening Grow up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space
By Fell, Derek
The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizingtheir large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labor. Vertical gardening guarantees a better outcome from the day the trowel hits the soil--by shrinking the amount of floor space needed and focusing on climbing plants that are less prone to insects, diseases, and animal pests.Notable author and gardener Derek Fell has tried and tested thousands of varieties of vegetables,flowers, and fruits and recommends the best plants for space-saving vertical gardening. His grow-up,grow-down system also shows which ground-level plants make good companions underneath and alongside climbing plants. Best of all, many of Fells greatest climbers and mutually beneficial plants are available in seed packets in every local garden center.
Fine Gardening Beds & Borders
By Gardening, Editors & Contributors Of Fine
A collection of the most popular design ideas, planting solutions, and quick front- and backyard fixes that the editors of Fine Gardening have to offer. Fine Gardening Beds and Borders offers easy planting solutions for creating gardens that add color and texture, help zone a property, and offer maximum impact for minimum investment of time and money. Whether the goal is as ambitious as a front yard makeover or as simple as a little spruce-up around the mailbox, Beds and Borders is packed with eye-catching garden designs, advice on choosing the best plants, and strategies for keeping plants healthy and lush all season long.,
Plantiful
By Green, Kristin
Whoever coined the phrase "money doesn't grow on trees" must not have been a resourceful gardener. While we may not be able to harvest physical money, with the right plants and techniques gardeners can rely on nature to give itself away for free. Plantiful shows you how to have an easy, gorgeous garden packed with plants by simply making the right choices. Kristen Green highlights plants that help a garden quickly grow by self-sowing and spreading and teaches you how to expand the garden and extend the life of a plant by overwintering. The book features plant profiles for 50 self-sowers (including columbine, milkweed, and foxglove), 50 spreaders (such as clematis, snow poppy, and spearmint), and 50 plants that overwinter (including lemon verbena, begonia, and Chinese hibiscus).
Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces
By Morrison, Susan
Filled with design tips, plant ideas and over 200 photos, Garden Up! offers inspiration and how-to information for enhancing any outdoor space with vertical elements. Authors Morrison and Sweet cover everything from living wall projects simple enough for a home gardener to tackle to creative solutions for blank walls and narrow beds. In chapters like 'Arbors and Trellises' and 'Garden Secrets', the book offers a wealth of design advice and problem solving solutions for traditional gardeners. Small space gardeners, DIYers and those looking to incorporate the latest vertical techniques into their gardens will appreciate sections that examine 'skinny space' planting beds, urban gardens, edibles and living walls. In keeping with their problem solving approach to gardening and design, Morrison and Sweet have arranged theirplant picks chapter by solution rather than plant type.
The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden
By Newcomb, Karen
This classic gardening bestseller (over 500,000 copies sold) uses ecologically friendly, intensive biodynamic methods to produce large amounts of vegetables in very tiny spaces. Revised for an all new generation of gardeners, the 40th anniversary edition includes brand new information on the variety of heirloom vegetables available today and how to grow them the postage stamp way. To accommodate today's lifestyles, a garden needs to fit easily into a very small plot, take as little time as possible to maintain, require a minimum amount of water, and still produce prolifically. That's exactly what a postage stamp garden does. Postage stamp gardens are as little as 4 by 4 feet, and, after the initial soil preparation, they require very little extra work to produce a tremendous amount of vegetables--for instance, a 5-by-5-foot bed will produce a minimum of 200 pounds of vegetables.
Hellstrip Gardening
By Hadden, Evelyn
In this fresh and enchanting book, Evelyn Hadden invites you to use your gardening power to convert your "hellstrip" - the space between the street and the sidewalk - into a rewarding garden that generates smiles and celebrates nature. And you don't need to stop there: if you have some unused ground outside the fence, down the steps, or beside the driveway, you can turn it into a pocket garden bursting with beauty and character. You'll gain inspiration from twelve dazzling curbside gardens from coast to coast, discover what you need to know before jumping in, learn how to actually create your hellstrip garden, and become acquainted with 108 plants especially suited to curbside conditions. With just one small curbside garden, you can make your yard and neighborhood more fragrant, more lively, more peaceful, more interesting, more earth friendly, and more beautiful.
Gardening Like a Ninja
By England, Angela
Turn your yard into the envy of the neighborhood while adding to your dinner table! Learn how to garden like a ninja as you sneak in plants that you can use for everyday cooking, creating a sustainable and beautiful landscape that's easy to maintain. Save time and money using the visually appealing and edible designs and harvest the fruits from your delicious paradise!
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
The American Meadow Garden
By Greenlee, John
If theres one lesson every homeowner must learn, its this The traditional lawn is a huge, time consuming, synthetic-chemical sucking mistake. The time has come to look for new ways to create friendly, livable spaces around our homes.In The American Meadow Garden, ornamental grass expert John Greenlee creates a new model for homeowners and gardeners. For Greenlee, a meadow isnt a random assortment of messy, anonymous grasses. Rather, it is a shimmering mini-ecosystem, in which regionally appropriate grasses combine with colorful perennials to form a rich tapestry that is friendly to all life with minimal input of water, time, and other scarce resources. Kids and pets can play in complete safety, and birds and butterflies flock there. A prairie style planting is a place you want to be.
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers
By Baker, Jerry
Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned grow-how," this guide explains how to turn an ordinary mix of flowers, ground covers, flowering trees, and shrubs into a four-season feast for the eyes without a lot of effort or expense. Organized by season, the book's easy-to-use format presents suggestions for using color to turn a garden into a brilliant palette and "Mixes and Fixes" to keep yards in tip-top shape. The "Ask Jerry" section provides answers to common gardening questions, while "Grandma Putt's Green Thumb Tips" features old-time, down-home wisdom that will make gardening a breeze.
Zen Gardens
By Locher, Mira
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly contemporary elements with the traditional design vernacular. He has worked in ultramodern urban hotels and in some of Japan's most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer of landscape architecture is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, "a special spiritual place where the mind dwells."This beautiful book, illustrated with more than 400 drawings and color photographs, is the first complete retrospective of Masuno's work to be published in English.
Gardening for the Birds
By Adams, George
You may already have a bird feeder in your yard, but you can attract a far wider range of species, and they will stay longer, if you create a bird-friendly landscape. Gardening for the Birds shows you how.With the right native plants, arranged to mimic natural ecosystems, you will provide birds with food, water, shelter, and nesting places. Instead of just visiting your garden to snack, birds will call it home.With hundreds of native plants, extensive seasonal bloom and fruiting charts, and the techniques for creating a balanced ecosystem, this book helps you turn any space -- from a small, urban terrace to a large suburban yard -- into a home for a fascinating variety of birds. Close-up profiles of birds from across all regions of North America teach you their nesting, breeding, and feeding habits.
Landscaping with Fruit
By Reich, Lee
Discover the joy of homegrown apples, fresh-picked cherries, and dozens of other fruits with this definitive guide to creating a more delicious backyard! Lee Reich shows you how to grow temperate-zone fruit at home, from site analysis and climate assessment through plant selection
Landscaping for Small Spaces
By Bix, Cynthia Overbeck
Great Gardens for Small Spaces:
Plan your garden the way professional landscape designers do, using their secrets to maximize space and make the area seem larger Discover gardening space you didn't know you had - on hillsides and in narrow side yards, on decks and patios, up walls and even overhead Learn how to choose the best plants for a limited area; more than 80 suggested trees, vines, shrubs, perennials, and ground covers are described Use colorful photos of successful small gardens to guide you in finding your own garden style
Understanding Garden Design
By Apld, Vanessa Gardner Nagel
Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do you accommodate a client’s requests while maintaining the integrity of the project? The answers to these questions, and many more, can all be found in Understanding Garden Design.Most books on garden design focus on only one or a few aspects of garden design―choosing plants or creating a hardscape, for example. This comprehensive, accessible book lays out the entire process from start to finish in clear, precise language that avoids the pitfalls of “designspeak.” In fact, garden owners and clients of garden designers who want to understand more about the designer’s craft will be able to profit from the book’s lessons.
Frederick Law Olmsted
By Olmsted, Frederick Law
Lavishly illustrated with over 470 images -- 129 of them in color -- this book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and comprehensive descriptions. Bringing together Olmsted's most significant parks, parkways, park systems, and scenic reservations, this gorgeous volume takes readers on a uniquely conceived tour of such notable landscapes as Central Park, Prospect Park, the Buffalo Park and Parkway System, Washington Park and Jackson Park in Chicago, Boston's "Emerald Necklace," and Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec. No such guide to Olmsted's parks has ever been published.Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) planned many parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed and defended today.
Royal Horticultural Society Small Garden Handbook
By Wilson, Andrew
A comprehensive guide to planning planting and maintaining a small garden This in-depth reference packs a lot of information and expert advice into one easy-to-use resource It is designed to help home gardeners discover the potential in a small piece of land and guide them step-by-step through the process of transforming it into a garden with oversized impact The book works forward from planning a garden and making difficult design choices to installation and maintenance Each chapter instructs on numerous related topics such as the examples below and presents an illustrative case study Basics - ways to reveal your plots potential understanding soil evaluating hardscaping making a plan Design - ways to make instant impact principles of design Styles - ways to find your style Style Portfolio Materials - ways to exploit materials simple rules of laying paving changes of level Boundaries - ways to buff up your boundaries materials plants Structures - ways to use garden structures storage hideaways green roofs raised beds an outdoor office Water - ways to enjoy water planning a pond mirror-like water dynamic water plants fish Planting - ways to improve a planting design habitats styles long-term and short-term design statements Upkeep - ways to simplify the garden seasonal and monthly housekeeping tasks The book also features an inspirational portfolio of small gardens and provides all the information needed to install these designs For example the handy steps to create lists cover Japanese Mediterranean Exotic Ecological Cottage-garden Arts and Crafts Modernist Conceptualist and Urban gardens Small Garden Handbook is ideal for the home gardener Each of the gardens featured in the books photographs provides exceptional inspiration for gardeners at all levels of expertise.
Home Outside
By Messervy, Julie Moir
An Outside-the-Box Guide to Outdoor Living. Let's face it: most of us have the confidence to improve the inside of our homes with a fresh coat of paint, new rugs, furniture, and fixtures. But when it comes to the outside of our most prized possession, we don't know where to start. That's where Julie Moir Messervy's Home Outside comes in. The acclaimed landscape designer walks the reader through the process of turning any property into the home outside you've always dreamed of. Focusing on key concepts like Finding Your Comfort Zone and Placing the Pieces, Messervy presents breathtaking plans for remarkable front and back lawns, entertainment areas, and contemplative retreats, as well as innovative ways to create a better flow between the inside and outside of a house.
Fences and Hedges
By Bird, Richard
Showing how to create and embellish fences, hedges, walls, plant screens, and trellises, this seventh volume in the series features 20 exciting projects, including a fruit wall, formal and informal hedges, a picket fence and a rose arch. 50 color photos and 300 illustrations.