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Even beginner gardeners can select plants to create a stunning garden as unique as this land itself--with expert help to ensure success! Prairie & Plains States Getting Started Garden Guide contains all of the information you need to choose and care for plants in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Novice gardeners, new homeowners, and those new to the area will find it invaluable, but more experienced gardeners and home landscapers will also fall in love with this...

Shows Japan's best known gardens in a variety of styles.

Colourful and hardy succulents meet the simple principles of Japanese Bonsai and Ikebana in this unique guide to container gardening. Inexpensive projects presented along with the spare aesthetic of Japanese design will appeal to everyone from interior designers to small space enthusiasts to gardeners. Stylish Succulents approaches container gardens as an art form ranging from low-key to lush. Trendy and low-maintenance succulents come in a variety of colours, sizes, shapes, and textures as do c...

Veteran gardening columnist Steve Whysall offers expert advice and inspirational, yet practical, information on growing a wide variety of plants.

Few perennials have undergone as dramatic a 'makeover' as heucheras (coral bells) and their hybrids with tiarellas (foamflowers), the heucherellas (foamy bells). Drawn mainly from diminutive forest-dwelling species with small white flowers and unremarkable foliage, these woodlanders and crevice dwellers are now among the most popular plants in nurseries around the world. Dan Heims and Grahame Ware not only provide background on the wild species of Heuchera, they also tell how these plants were d...

This comprehensive reference describes garden-worthy ferns, conifers, and flowering plants (annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs) native to the Pacific Northwest. Featured are some 530 subject species that occur naturally from southwestern Alaska to Oregon's border with California, and from the coast east to Idaho. Illustrated throughout with nearly 600 eye-popping color photographs and original pen-and-ink drawings, this book is smartly separated by plant type into five encyclopedic sections....

Bali is a tropical island with beautiful landscapes, mountains, forests and orchards. The coastal plains are covered by rice fields and vegetable gardens, but cultivation of the land is not restricted to farming: the island also boasts a wealth of gardens found in the grounds of temples, palaces, hotels and private houses where greenery and tropical flowers are mixed with ornamental sculpture, pools and running water. This book presents photographs of a selection of the best of these gardens, an...

Once known only to collectors, adolescent boys, and fans of the cult film The Little Shop of Horrors, carnivorous plants are poised to be the next big trend. Commonly sold alongside succulents and air plants, they provide striking architectural style and can be grown indoors and in gardens. Carnivorous Plants is an accessible, smartly designed guide to growing this unusual group of plants. It offers a general introduction to the world of carnivorous plants, and growing and cultivation informatio...

Fern Fever (or Pteridomania, to give it its official name), was popular in Britain between 1837 and 1914. Although in previous centuries ferns played an important role in customs and folklore, it was only in this period that they were coveted for aesthetic reasons. The fern craze started to gather momentum in the 1840s; books and magazines maintained that fern growing was a hobby that anyone could enjoy, as ferns would grow in the glazed fernery, garden, shady yard, window box or even indoors in...

Appeals to fans of new floristry such as Nikki Tibbles' Wild at Heart, The Real Flower Company, and Jane Packer There is growing awareness that houseplants are good for your health This book focuses on modern selections and offers more detailed planting advice than competitor titles

Many people consider themselves to be good gardeners, but it takes something extra to put to use a variety of basic design principles to create a garden that is extraordinarily beautiful. This book explains every piece of the gardening puzzle in a friendly, straightforward way. It demystifies the art of designing with plants, offering practical, how-to advice on: Basic Design Techniques; Successfully Using Colour; Extending Seasons; Designing a Year-Round Garden; Using Plants for Special Effects...

Loaded with plants that conjure visions of tropical islands and pina coladas, Paradise Found makes real every gardener's dream of living in a private Eden.

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 160 superb photographs. It is a fascinating guide to the history, uses, botany, classification and cultivation of grasses, including a fully illustrated directory of over 60 different varieties. It includes botanical information and identification photographs of small grasses such as sedges, medium grasses such as rushes, and large grasses such as bamboos. It features expert practical advice...

This book shows you how to create a garden with glorious colour in every season, with 130 photographs. You can enjoy vibrant beds and borders throughout the year, with practical advice and ideas for stunning combinations. It features easy-to-follow instructions for seasonal gardening tasks - from sowing seeds to overwintering flowers - and details of when plants are at their best. It features planting ideas for low-maintenance, seasonal interest using perennials, bulbs, berries, foliage, stems,...