Lynn Karlin, photographer of our best-selling and award-winning Gardens Maine Style, has chosen her favorite photos - half from the book and half new - to illustrate this perpetual daybook. In addition to forty-four luscious shots of Maine gardens, there are informational sidebars about gardening, as well as space in which to write daily activities or use as a garden journal.
Nearly twenty years ago Beth Miller moved with her husband and four young kids from suburban New Jersey to a 200-year-old Federal period house and barn in rural Maine. She didn't garden, she didn't keep chickens or bees, she didn't know how to preserve food, and she didn't know how to make soap or hook rugs. She embarked on a journey to learn these heritage skills that have been largely forgotten, and today she owns and operates Parris House Wool Works, a traditional rug-hooking company serving...
The Boston Globe Illustrated New England Gardening Almanac
by Carol Stocker
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...
Garden Bugs & Insects of the Northeast (Adventure Quick Guides)
by Jaret C. Daniels
Get this tabbed booklet to garden insects and bugs, and learn how to identify and attract (or repel!) them. Brightly colored flowers, rich soil, and delicious nectar, the garden landscape is a bug's paradise. It attracts the ones we want to see-like bees, butterflies, and lady beetles-but also the ones we don't, such as grasshoppers, spider mites, and snails. Keep this convenient guide to garden bugs and insects close at hand. Designed for ease of use, the tabbed booklet is organized by group...
Growing the Northeast Garden (Regional Ornamental Gardening)
by Andrew Keys
Adventures of a Narrative Gardener: Creating a Landscape of Memory
by Ronald Lee Fleming
This is an entirely new kind of garden book, rather than a homage to contemporary gardens, a survey of historic gardens or a "how-to" manual. Through a careful mix of rich visual imagery and memoir, author Ronald Lee Fleming brings to life the garden he has created at Bellevue House, Newport, and explains his many sources, many of which hold deeply personal memories.
For bird enthusiasts, offering food at feeders is a way to enjoy a close-up view of target species while helping them survive and thrive. This guide profiles 40 common feeder birds found in the Northwest United States, along with feeder types and recommended foods for attracting each species. Also included are comments about each species' habitat and behaviors.
Trail Running (Journal / Notebook)
by Wild Pages Press Journals & Notebooks
How to Get Started in Northeastern Gardening (First Garden)
by Darrell Trout
The Vermont Gardener's Companion tells how to get the most out of Vermont's short gardening season and details how readers can use organic methods to improve soil, deal with diseases and pests, and get better results with their plants in a state where "winter temperatures plunge far below zero and rocks left by the glaciers pop out of the ground each spring like bread from hyperactive toasters." With good humor and a natural teacher's gift for explanations, Henry Homeyer makes gardening fun and...
Monthly Planner July 2019- June 2020 (2019-2020 Pretty Monthly Calendar Planners, #6)
by Nine Journal
Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue -- the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live," Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners. "A garden of herb...