Covering the Ground

ISBN-10
0473249731
ISBN-13
9780473249731
Category
Farm life
Pages
293
Language
English
Published
2013
Author
Colleen Thompson

Description

"These stories started in 1933 and give my impressions of our lives as they changed dramatically from suburban Auckland where my parents lived a busy but secure and close family life, to isolation in the backblocks of Helensville, making a ...

Similar books

  • Covering Ground
    By Barbara W. Ellis

    Cuttings root best with bottom heat. Geranium hybrids include 'Ann Folkard', with chartreuse leaves and magenta pink flowers from midsummer to fall on 18-inch-tall ... 'Kashmir White', with white flowers, is somewhat less vigorous.

  • The Complete Book of Ground Covers: 4000 Plants that Reduce Maintenance, Control Erosion, and Beautify the Landscape
    By Gary Lewis

    Comprehensive, practical, and copiously illustrated, this indispensable volume belongs on the shelf of every designer, landscape architect, and serious gardener.

  • Perennial Ground Covers
    By David S. MacKenzie

    Written in an accessible style by a distinguished grower of ground covers, it includes information on selecting, planting, maintaining, and propagating these plants. There are chapters on using native plants,...

  • Covering Ground
    By Barbara W. Ellis

    Barbara W. Ellis provides a variety of full-color lawn designs and professional planting advice to get you started. You’ll be amazed as your ordinary lawn transforms into a striking display of color and texture.

  • Plants for Ground-cover

    Ground covers can be both attractive in their own right and a boon to the gardener by smothering weeds. This edition includes USDA hardiness zone ratings lacking in previous editions.Published...

  • Native Wildflowers and Other Ground Covers for Florida Landscapes
    By Craig Norman Huegel

    As many of the plants featured in this book are not frequently or adequately discussed elsewhere, Native Wildflowers and Other Ground Covers for Florida Landscapes is a singular resource for homeowners and commercial growers alike.

  • The Lightstone
    By David Zindell

    A call is sent out by one of the major rulers still free of Morjin's grip to all those who oppose the dreaded sorcerer. It is nothing less than a quest to find the Lightstone and give Men hope after ages of despair.

  • Women Journalists at Ground Zero: Covering Crisis
    By Judith L. Sylvester, Suzanne Huffman

    Suzanne had a friend who had previously worked at Cantor Fitzgerald . " I'd been up to the offices . So I remembered what those offices looked like . It was eerie . It really hit me when friends from my home state of Minnesota were ...

  • Ground Cover
    By Edith S Marks

    Ground Cover

  • Gone to Ground: A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam
    By Emily Brownell

    For more on Ehrlich, see also Robertson, Malthusian Moment; and Robertson, “This Is the American Earth,” 561–84. 8. Ehrlich, Population Bomb, 1. 9. Schumaker, Small Is Beautiful. Immerwahr, Thinking Small. 10.