Author: Will IngwersenPublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Ingwersen's Manual of Alpine Plants
Author: Will IngwersenPublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Thoughtful Gardening
Author: Robin Lane FoxPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465022936
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In Thoughtful Gardening, award-winning historian and Financial Times gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox takes readers on a delightful journey through each season of the gardening year. From fending off vine-weevils to visiting Yves Saint Laurent's private gardens in Marrakech, Fox imbues each of his musings with grace, sophistication, and charm. Essential reading for anyone planting a new garden or taking stock of one after several years, Thoughtful Gardening offers expert advice and a touching reminder of the power of art and literature to deepen what we see and experience in nature. Combining a vast understanding of horticulture with witty and stylish storytelling, these vignettes form -- season by season -- a rich reflection on the lessons, challenges, and joys of life with a green thumb.
Gardening for Love
Author: Elizabeth LawrencePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822308874
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Elizabeth Lawrence occupies a secure place in the pantheon of twentieth-century gardening writers that includes Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West of Great Britain and Katherine S. White of the United States. Her books, such as A Southern Garden (1942) and The Little Bulbs (1957), remain in print, continuing to win praise from criticis and to delight an ever-widening circle of readers. In Gardening for Love, Lawrence reveals another world of garden writing, the world of the rural women of the South with whom she corresponded extensively from the late 1950s into the mid-1970s in responce to their advertisements for herbs and ornamental perennials in several market bulletins (published by state departments of agriculture for the benefit of farmers). It was Eudora Welty who awakened Elizabeth Lawrence's interest in this fascinating topic by putting her name on the mailing list of The Mississippi Market Bulletin, a twice-monthly collection of classified advertisements founded in 1928 and still published today. Lawrence soon discovered market bulletins from the Carolinas and other Southern states, as well as similar bulletins published privately in the North. She began ordering plants from the bulletins, and there ensued a lively exchange of letters wit the women who sold them. Gardening for Love is Lawrence's exploration of this little-known side of American horticulture and her affectionate tribute to country people who shared her passion for plants. Drawing on the letters she received, sometimes a great many of them from the same persons over many years, she delves into traditional plant lore, herbal remedies, odd and often highly poetic vernacular plant names peculiar to particular regions of the South, and the herb collectors of the mountains of the Carolinas and Georgia. She focuses primarily on the Southeast and the Deep South, but her wide knowledge of both literature and botany gives Gardening for Love a dimension that transcends the category of regional writing.
Gardening with the New Small Plants
Author: Oliver E. AllenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780395432884
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
After years of trying to make everything bigger, plant developers have discovered the virtues and charm of the miniatures and dwarfs--perfect little trees and shrubs that never outgrow their locations.
The Rock Garden Plant Primer
Author: Christopher Grey-WilsonPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 088192928X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Shows how to use rock garden plants in a variety of garden situations, including mixed borders, window boxes, raised beds, and patio pots.
Bulletin
Author: The Plant Geography of Korea
Author: Kong Woo-SeokPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401116245
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This is the first detailed analysis of the complex and rich vegetation of the mountainous Korean peninsula, which ranges from arctic-alpine to subtropical in character, and in which more than 4500 vascular-plant species have been recorded, including many endemics. It covers both the north and south of the peninsula and, using both past and present records, identifies eight major biogeographic regions. It pays due attention to vegetation history, tracing this back to Miocene times and noting the effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations. More recently, detailed climatic variations from 50 B.C. are recorded, along with man's influence on vegetation patterns. Special mention is made of the present arctic-alpine communities, their structural and floristic characteristics, their origins, and their vulnerability to current global warming. Throughout the relationships between Korean vegetation communities and those present in adjacent East Asia are emphasized along with those key features which make Korean communities distinctly unique.
The Bernard E. Harkness Seedlist Handbook
Author: Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A guide to the plants offered in the major plant societies' seed exchanges based on the lists from the seed exchanges of the American Rock Garden Society, the Alpine Garden Society (England), and the Scottish Rock Garden Club.
Quarterly Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society
Author: Alpine Garden Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Plants for Problem Places
Author: Graham RicePublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9780881923148
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Each of the chapters in this useful book concentrates on a particular problem, and after outlining the nature of the difficulty and suggesting ways of alleviating the disadvantages, the author proposes a range of plants--trees, shrubs, hedges, perennials, and annuals--that will thrive in the tough conditions described. -- Back Cover.