Mediterranean climates such as California, with their hot dry summers & mild wet winters, require a different kind of planting than classic European woodland or cottage styles.
The Glass Christmas Ornament, Old & New: A Collectorś Compendium and Price Guide
An accessible and comprehensive reference to the wide range of striking grasses available to gardeners, this pocket guide features an assortment of plants with varied textures, forms, sizes, and flowering times.
There is an abundance of inspiration in the 100 combinations featured in this book.
Spiky and ferocious, statuesque and architectural, bold and brilliantly colored, these are larger-than-life, hardy, and easy-to-grow plants that help create scale and proportion in gardens of any size.
Discover the plant suitable for your conditions with this treatment of tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate plants, as well as the hardy perennials and shrubs.
Our popular ongoing Gardener's Guide series offers first-rate authors, an approach that is neither superficial nor overly technical, and excellent photographs.
A guide to plant propagation that offers advice and information on using the right equipment, preparing seeds, saving money, and mastering different methods and techniques.
Readers will be enticed by the book's lavish color photographs and gratified by the wealth of practical advice on selecting and buying moth orchids.
International experts worked for nearly two decades to produce this greatest single source of information on maples.
A delightful book that encourages gardeners to pay closer attention to the subtle beauty of miniature landscapes and introduces one of the glories of Japanese gardens into American designs.
Explains how plant defenses were found to be useful medicinally, and introduces the new field of zoopharmacognosy that studies patterns in animal interactions with medicinal plants.
Jurgen Dahl explores the connections between the life of the garden and the life of the mind. He ranges from discussing why gardeners should grow bad-smelling plants to how readers should eat their flowers.
The book considers shade in several different garden situations and takes an in-depth look at shade-loving plants. Also included are tips on the design and maintenance of a shade garden.
Species tulips are the ancestors of the garden hybrids described in the final chapter, and this full account will help gardeners refine their growing skills and enhance their enjoyment of tulips as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
With the addition of 50 new species plus 100 new photos and illustrations, this book is an even better guide to salvias than Clebsch's first version.
The book will appeal to non-specialists and all hikers with an interest in the natural world"--
Before starting your water feature, learn from these detailed case studies that depict actual gardens progressing from planning to planting, using only modest building skills.
Text and illustrations present a wide variety of roses. This oversized volume is lavishly illustrated as well as being an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the world's most popular and best-loved garden roses.
Covers mixed garden design concepts, exploring color, texture, form, principles, and maintenance.