Month-By-Month Gardening in Pennsylvania (Month-By-Month Gardening in Pennsylvania)
by Liz Ball
New Jersey Gardener's Guide (New Jersey Gardener's Guide)
by Pegi Ballister-Howell
Saratoga Springs is colorful not only culturally and historically, but also literally. Come spring and summer the historic resort town is filled with lush plantings in the public parks, around private homes from the grandest to the most modest, at the Saratoga Race Course grounds and the Skidmore College campus, and even throughout the business district along Broadway. Rather than discouraging Saratoga's green thumbs, the challenging northern climate only inspires residents to celebrate the retu...
Mid-Atlantic Gardener's Handbook, 2nd Edition (Gardener's Handbook)
by Katie Elzer-Peters
Best Garden Plants for New York State
by Maria Cinque and Alison Beck
Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast
by Ruth Rogers Clausen and Gregory D Tepper
This beginner-friendly guide for gardeners in the Northeast addresses two of the biggest concerns a gardener has: keeping out deer and adding native plants. Deer are an ever-present problem in gardens across the northeast. In Deer-Resistant Native Plants for theNortheast, Ruth Rogers Clausen and Gregory D. Tepper offer a solution - native plants that deer simply don't eat. The plant profiles in this book include a deer-resistance rating, hardiness zones, height and spread, and a description th...
Any avid gardener knows the frustration of searching in vain for realistic and practical gardening resources. Coffee-table books full of lush images of English country gardens and technical volumes on landscape design are of little use to dirt-under-the-nails gardeners seeking straight answers to questions about planning a cutting garden that really produces. Suzanne McIntire provides a bumper crop of such down-to-earth help in An American Cutting Garden. Using both common and botanical names, s...
Black & Decker the Complete Guide to Mid-Atlantic Gardening
by Lynn M. Steiner
Gardenwalks in the Mid-Atlantic States
by Marina Harrison and Lucy D. Rosenfeld
This engaging, well-written guide to exceptional gardens in the Mid-Atlantic states conveys the charm and appeal of a variety of beautiful destinations, from grand estates to intimate enclaves. Gardenwalks Written by and for garden lovers who travel, this new series leads readers to hundreds of a region's most glorious gardens, from elaborate displays to hidden gems. Organized geographically, each entry gives a garden's historical background - often a single strong personality - and highlights w...
Growing the Northeast Garden (Regional Ornamental Gardening)
by Andrew Keys
A primer for gardeners seeking to cultivate a seaside paradise offers a look at the trials and challenges that arise when creating a coastal garden, accompanied by maps and charts on annuals and perennials and tips on dealing with the long winter months. 12,500 first printing.
Big city highrises are chockfull of penthouses and terraces that garden innocents hope to turn into a sylvan paradise or a bower of roses. That's at least what they see in movies and real-estate ads. With honesty and humor, and thirty-five years of challenges and triumphs, best-selling author, Susan Brownmiller describes her battle to sustain an oasis of beauty twenty floors above street level in Manhattan, in less than hospitable conditions caused by more than the wind. My City Highrise Garden...
Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805
by Barbara Wells Sarudy
The mid-Atlantic region is fortunate to have an abundance of houses and buildings that date to the eighteenth century. Fine examples of the furniture, paintings, and other objects that filled these houses survive in museums and private collections. But what of the gardens that surrounded these early homes? Virtually all of them have been reclaimed by wilderness or altered by later residents. In Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, Barbara Wells Sarudy recovers this lost world using a remark...