Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement or even under the kitchen sink in an apartment — making vermicomposting a great option for city dwellers and anyone who doesn’t want or can’t have an outdoor compost pile. The fully revised 35th anniversary edition features the original’s same friendly tone, with up-to-date information on the entire process, from building or purchasing a bin (readily available at garden supply stores), maintaining the worms, and harvesting the finished compost.

    #4 on Publishers Weekly's Bestselling Gardening Books list! This new, completely revised edition has over 500 new photographs, 400 new illustrations, 400 new plants and trees, the latest pest control recommendations, fruit and vegetable recommendations, new tips and plants specifically for Southern Texas, plus everything in the first edition.

    Diana Vreeland praised it as "delightful and delicious," and Laura Ashley called it "pure inspiration." The most elegant and subtle of books to give and to have, it evokes the English gardens of Sara Midda's childhood, sowing the imagination with glorious images. Dozens and dozens of illustrations and tender reflections recall a hut in the wood, or a topiary maze, a summer day spent podding peas, or an herb patch that yields Biblical fragrances. Ruby-red radishes are the jewels of the underworld. Myriad colors fall upon warm green moss. Painted with Sara Midda's fine brush, it is a book of lasting enchantment.

    Author Rosalind Creasy, a landscape designer and leading authority on edible landscaping, provides all the information necessary to plan, plant, and maintain ornamental edible landscapes, with specific designs for all geographic and climatic regions of the country. Drawing on years of research into the most decorative and flavorful species—from the exotic water chestnut to the ever-popular apple—Creasy shows how edibles can form the basis for a beautiful home landscape or can be integrated with traditional ornamentals. An outstanding feature is the 160-page "Encyclopedia of Edibles"—a book in itself—which alphabetically lists more than 120 edible species, with detailed horticultural information, landscaping and culinary uses, seed sources, and recipes. Other valuable features include an abundance of how-to illustrations, photographs, and landscape diagrams designed for beginners and experts alike, plus a list of mail-order nurseries, a climate zone map, and extensive appendices.

    But until this year, there wasn't a comprehensive book on the subject. Now there is: "Gardening With Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest."..The main body of the book is divided into encyclopedic sections on trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials, including information about where they grow in the wild, how to propagate them, and how they fit into home gardens...This book contains so much well-organized, well-written material that it should become a standard guidebook for anyuone who gardens with Northwest natives." "-Sunset""All in all, this is a fascinating book, full of reliable information." -"The Garden Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society""Professor Kruckeberg is a botanist at the University of Washington who has specialized in the flora of the Pacific Northwest for over thirty years. This summary of his experience, with plants in the wild and in gardens, will be referred to with pleasure for years, not only for the value of its information but also for the easy style and quiet humor of its presentation." -"Pacific Horticulture""Arthur Kruckenberg has provided his attractive, literate, and useful book just as the native-plant movement is gathering great momentum. As he writes, 'The largely untapped potential of gardening with Northwest natives needs to become a way of life for those who look to the plant for beauty and serenity.' That goes for anywhere." "-Horticulture"

    Recognized as classics of their subjects, they tell the story of her famous gardens in Elmstead Market, Essex. Full of the insights and practical advice of one of the world's foremost plantswomen and designers, The Damp Garden demonstrates how these gardens have more in common with American growing conditions than those normally associated with Great Britain. For the practical-minded gardener, The Damp Garden describes what is involved in digging a pond, what to do about the unwelcome wildlife it attracts and how to cope with poor drainage or compacted soil. An entire chapter is devoted to garden plans, with schemes for swamp gardens, shady damp borders and meadow beds. Each is broken down into groups of plants that associate well with one another, thus making it possible to adapt the plans to even the smallest plot. There is an alphabetical list of the many plants suitable for damp soil, with information about their size, shape, foliage and flowering season; also a fascinating chapter on the natural habitats of many garden plants. In a new introduction to this edition, Thomas Fischer provides a perspective on Chatto's style and its influence on gardeners in America. He has revised the plant index to make it more useful to North American gardeners.

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    It answers not only the how and the when, but also the why. It anticipates the potential problems, and provides pretested solutions. It can make the difference between a so-so yield and a good one, between a good yield and a greta one.

    

    Although science has explained in great detail the complex chemical and physiological nature of plants, it has neglected the study and recognition of how matter is arranged into the shape and pattern of living things. Goethe's organic concept and Rudolf Steiner's imaginative idea of formative forces have inspired the authors in this work, opening the way to a truly scientific understanding of the way in which the living world is formed. In order to describe these principles of form, it was necessary to follow new ideas contained in modern Projective Geometry -- developing a new geometry of living things. Going far beyond the rigidity and static quality of more familiar geometry, one is introduced to a world of moving forms that change constantly: the great variety of living plants.

    Here is all the information you need to know about proper tree selection, planting, and maintenance. You will learn how to identify and combat tree insects and diseases. You will also find lists of trees for different uses and an extensive encyclopedia with descriptions of hundreds of widely available trees.