Author: Ezra HaggardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780253330673
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Describes flowers, ferns, grasses, and other plants that grow well in the cold winters and hot summers of the region.
Perennials for Midwestern Gardens
Author: Anthony W. KahtzPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881928933
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Offers advice on choosing perennials suitable for midwestern gardens, with information on flowers, foliage, soil, propagation, and care.
The Midwest Native Plant Primer
Author: Alan BranhagenPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699922
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Bring your garden to life—and life to your garden! Do you want a garden that makes a real difference? Choose plants native to our Midwest region. The rewards will benefit you, your yard, and the environment—from reducing maintenance tasks to attracting earth-friendly pollinators such as native birds, butterflies, and bees. Native plant expert Alan Branhagen makes adding these superstar plants easier than ever before, with proven advice that every home gardener can follow. This incomparable sourcebook includes 225 recommended native ferns, grasses, wildflowers, perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. It’s everything you need to know to create a beautiful and beneficial garden. This must-have handbook is for gardeners in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Trees, Shrubs, and Roses for Midwest Gardens
Author: Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253339618
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A garden design book that features shrubs, trees, and roses for the Midwest. It offers tips for good plant combinations.
The Garden Guide to Midwest Annuals & Perennials
Author: Linda NaevePublisher: Iowa State University Extension
ISBN: 9780970052841
Category : Annuals (Plants)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This easy-to-carry guide is designed as a reference for gardeners and visitors to public gardens in the midwest. It includes photos and basic information about growing 300 annual & perennial flowers, roses, ornamental grasses, herbs, vines, and water plants. The book has an index and uses symbols to convey some information, such as annual/perennial, sun/shade requirements, and special uses (containers, butterfly gardens, etc.).
Go Native!
Author: Carolyn HarstadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Simple question-and-answer format explains methods of planning, preparation and planting native plants and wildflowers that thrive naturally in the Lower Midwest and require less watering and preserve the ecosystem. 64 photos, 125 illustrations. 336 p.
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden
Author: Roy DiblikPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604693347
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“A veritable goldmine for gardeners.” —Plant Talk We’ve all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they? The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy garden achievable at home. The new, simplified approach is made up of hardy, beautiful plants grown on a 10x14 foot grid. Each of the 62 garden plans combines complementary plants that thrive together and grow as a community. They are designed to make maintenance a snap. The garden plans can be followed explicitly or adjusted to meet individual needs, unlocking rich perennial landscape designs for individualization and creativity.
Your Midwest Garden
Author: Jan RiggenbachPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803240090
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
It’s a rare midwesterner who doesn’t grow something, whether potted plants on a porch, caged tomato vines, a blooming border, or a solitary rose. And it’s an even rarer midwestern gardener who isn’t sometimes flummoxed by extremes of weather, pesky insects and persistent diseases, or simple questions about what to plant where. For nearly four decades, Jan Riggenbach has given these gardeners answers, as well as a weekly dose of gentle humor and wise counsel, in her widely syndicated newspaper column, Midwest Gardening. Your Midwest Garden draws on these columns to offer readers in America’s heartland all the gardening information they want and need, along with plenty they might not even suspect they’re missing. Annuals and perennials, shrubs and vines, fruits and vegetables, wildflowers, bulbs, and herbs: As readable as it is useful, this book reviews the familiar, reconsiders old favorites, and introduces dozens of surprising and seldom-grown plants ideal for Midwest gardens and landscapes. Illustrated with color photos from the author’s garden, it provides tips on plant placement and care, starting seeds and making compost, matching specimens and sites, combating insects and diseases, simplifying garden chores, designing for winter beauty, and myriad other ways of enriching and enjoying your Midwest garden.
Creating a Perennial Garden in the Midwest
Author: Joan SeveraPublisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9780915024735
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
"Create beautiful gardens and grow healthy perennials ideally suited for Zones 3, 4, and 5"--Page 4 of cover.
Native Plants of the Midwest
Author: Alan BranhagenPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604697776
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Native Plants of the Midwest features the best native plants in the heartland and offers clear and concise guidance on how to use them in the garden.
Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees
Author: Charlotte AdelmanPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445308
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
In this companion volume to the bestselling The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz offer another indispensible guide to replacing nonnative plants with native alternatives. This time, their subject is the native woody species that are the backbone of our gardens and landscapes. Among other ecological benefits, native shrubs and trees provide birds and butterflies with vital food and reproductive sites that nonnative species cannot offer. And they tend to be hardier and easier to maintain. The authors provide a comprehensive selection of native woody alternatives that, season by season, provide effects similar to those of nonnative shrubs and trees used for ornamental purposes and shade. These plants are suitable for all garden styles, provide blooms and fall color, and have the same cultivation requirements as their nonnative counterparts. Nature notes alert readers to the native species’ unique ecological roles. Unlike other gardening guides, Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees goes beyond mere suggestion to provide gardeners with the tools they need to make informed, thoughtful choices. Knowing which native species to plant for desired effects empowers landscapers and gardeners to take on a greater role in protecting our midwestern environment.