COMMON NAME: Li'l BangTM Red Elf Tickseed BOTANICALNAME: Coreopsis × verticillata 'Red Elf' PLANTTYPE: Flowering perennial MATURE DIMENSIONS: 12 inches tall; equal width HARDINESS: Winter hardy down to –20°F (USDA Zones 5–9) IDEAL SUN ...
Walliser provides scalable projects for differing needs, and give you ideas for reusing containers you have around your home. She covers the importance of drainage, irrigation, and other watering concerns for a successful garden.
In this comprehensive guide, Jessica uses her numerous contacts in the seed and plant production world to give space-challenged gardeners a heads up on what's new, as well as re-introducing a few traditional small-footprint favorites.
Reflecting the latest research on how plants influence and communicate with each other, Jessica Walliser offers a research-based guide to companion planting—a gardening method that uses strategic plant partnerships to improve crop yields ...
Also includes gardening tips and stories from the authors. A Gardener's Notebook is designed to become a family heirloom - its pages filled with the story of your life in the garden.
In Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, you'll learn how to fill your garden with the right plants to support the beneficial predatory insects that control common garden pests.
For those millions of gardeners who are now realizing that organic is the only way to grow, this book offers practical information to help get ""the real dirt"" on up-to-date, easy-to-understand organic practices.
Through an enhanced understanding of how plants interact with and influence each other, this guide suggests specific plant combinations that improve soil health and weed control, decrease pest damage, and increase biodiversity, resulting in ...
The methods described in this book are foolproof and easy to follow, with step-by-step directions and photographs, scalable projects for differing needs, and many great ideas for upscaled containers from things you have around your home.
Gardening experts and Grow Organic authors Doug Oster and Jessica Walliser present A Gardeners Journal, designed to become the home gardeners favorite go-to companion.
Quickly identify the most common invasive and beneficial insects (and other tiny critters) with the help of garden expert Walliser. Thirty-six bugs are profiled in full color on laminated stock, with concealed wire binding.
An attractive gift book for adults and curious kids alike. The 2nd edition contains a number of color photographs not seen in the 1st edition and presents three new "bad bugs" to add to the rogues gallery of insect pests.