Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscapes
by Nora Harlow
Gardening in Summer Dry Climates is the definitive guide for gardeners who want a lush, colourful garden that will thrive in a summer-dry climate - an area defined by wet winters and dry summers. This hardworking book teaches gardeners how plants adapt to the climate and how to design for summer drought and winter wet. Information includes details about topography and climate, advice for gardening in the age of wildfire, and suggestions for embracing wildness and change. An A-to-Z of plants incl...
Saving Nature One Yard at a Time
by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth
David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth present 100 home projects designed to inspire and empower anyone who wants to help save our native flora and fauna in the face of habitat loss and climate change. This book focuses on saving creatures and plants that are especially vulnerable but that can be successfully helped by our efforts, such as bees, frogs, butterflies, birds, trees, and wildflowers. Each project meets four crucial criteria: (1) it will make a significant difference to the survival of...
Prairie & Plains States Getting Started Garden Guide
by Cathy Wilkinson-Barash
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...
A priviledged tour of a lavish estate in Greenwich featuring an abundance of garden experiences--formal boxwood and undulating hornbeam hedges, dense woodland, reflecting pools, arbors and follies--and a "ferme ornée" offering organic produce to the community. Sleepy Cat Farm is the vision of one man, Fred Landman, who acquired the handsome Georgian Revival house and grounds in 1994. Deeply committed to the concept of harmony between house and garden, he has dedicated himself to the landscape t...
The Complete Guide to Lower South Gardening (Black & Decker)
by Lynn M. Steiner
Backyard Homestead Journal
by Empowered Families Publishing and Lesli Ashley
Monet'S Passion Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from the Painter's Gardens
by Elizabeth Murray
The Perfect Texas Lawn (Creating and Maintaining the Perfect Lawn)
by Dr. Steve Dobbs
Vegetable Gardening for the Midwest
by Colleen Vanderlinden and Dr. Laura Peters
Bridge Foot Wooden Railing Bridges Nature Pedestrian Forest Hiking path Track
by Wild Pages Press
Eat Like a Local-Salt Lake City (Eat Like a Local, #24)
by Eat Like a Local and Emily Nelson
The first book directed at the consumer/home gardener market on this important new gardening movement, Rain Gardening in the South is a colorful, readable how-to guide on creating beautiful gardens that capture and use water that runs off roofs, driveways, and other hard surfaces in our landscape. Written by horticulturists Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford, Rain Gardening in the South helps gardeners use our most precious resource wisely. Rain gardens maximize rainwater, enhance the landscape, and...