Author: Jim DardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Great American Azaleas
Author: Jim DardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
America's Greatest Garden
Author: Ernest Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arboretums
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The American Florist
Author: Garden and Home Builder
Author: American Florist
Author: Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, Revised and Expanded
Author: Carolyn SummersPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978833652
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
As recent years have seen alarming declines of insect and bird populations in many states, more gardeners have discovered the importance of including native plants in order to nurture these pollinators and sustain local ecosystems. But when so many popular landscaping designs involve exotic cultivars and invasive plant species, how can you create a garden that is both aesthetically pleasing and ecologically responsible? In this fully revised second edition of the classic guide Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, gardening expert Carolyn Summers draws on the most recent research on sustainable landscaping. She is joined in this edition by her daughter, landscape designer Kate Brittenham, offering an intergenerational dialogue about the importance of using indigenous plants that preserve insect and bird habitats. The practical information they provide is equally useful for home gardeners and professionals, including detailed descriptions of keystone trees, shrubs, perennials, vines, and grasses that are native to the eastern United States. Accompanied by entirely new illustrations and updated plant lists, they offer chic yet eco-friendly landscape designs fully customized for different settings, from suburban yards to corporate office parks. The states covered in this book are CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WI, and WV, as well as southern Quebec and Ontario.
The Garden Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The Final Days of Great American Shopping
Author: Gilbert AllenPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611176395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happiness An affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects. In Belladonna, a gated subdivision in upstate South Carolina, readers meet acolorful cast of characters doing their best to buy happiness in a series of sixteen closely linked stories from the past, present, and future. Whether speed dating, test driving cars, upsizing to dream houses, flying helicopters, or lusting after designer shoes, these small-town spenders have good intentions that often go hilariously awry as they search for emotional and spiritual comfort. Gilbert Allen is a master at character development and the individuals in this collection are no exception. Among them are the childless, emotionally distant couple Butler and Marjory Breedlove; the harried appliance salesman John Beegle and his precocious, pole-dancing daughter Alison; and the one-handed soccer wunderkind Amy Knobloch. Also featured are Ted Dickey the mastermind of the Mental Defectives self-help book series and the undefeated Speed Dating Champion of the World; Jimmy Scheetz, the pragmatic philanthropist behind Ecumenical Bedding; Ruthella Anderson, a retired first-grade teacher addicted to Star Trek and to extreme couponing; and the mysterious Gabriella, an aging Italian beauty who presides over Doumi Shoes. Arranged chronologically, the stories span nearly a century. While most are set in the recent past or in the immediate future, the book's title story is set in 2084. It depicts a dystopian shopping mall worthy of George Orwell, John Cheever, or Flannery O'Connor, and raises the question, "Can America survive international terrorism, ecological apocalypse, and demographic disaster to morph triumphantly into the USAARP?"
Garden & Home Builder
Author: William Tyler MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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