In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long-term health of the soil. The new book is thoroughly updated, and includes all-new chapters such as:Farm-Generated Fertility--how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, even if manure is not available.The Moveable Feast--how to construct home-garden and commercial-scale greenhouses that can be easily moved to benefit plants and avoid insect and disease build-up.The Winter Garden--how to plant, harvest, and sell hardy salad crops all winter long from unheated or minimally heated greenhouses.Pests--how to find "plant-positive" rather than "pest-negative" solutions by growing healthy, naturally resistant plants.The Information Resource--how and where to learn what you need to know to grow delicious organic vegetables, no matter where you live.Written for the serious gardener or small market farmer, The New Organic Grower proves that, in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.

    Packed with advice on over 8,000 plants with all you need to know on cultivation, pests, diseases and choosing the right plant for the right place. Now features a new section on choosing the best plants for year-round colour in your garden.

    Explores scientific and mystical developments that renew and enhance the soil, among them rock dust fertilizer, biodynamic agriculture, and other highly unusual fertilizers.

    Now the lovely, subtle-hued, richly perfumed old roses are making a comeback, thanks to the efforts of a stubborn band of eccentric characters who rescued them from back alleys, ramshackle cottages, and overgrown graveyards across the country. Thomas Christopher tells us the fascinating stories of the old roses—how they were created and made their way to America—and the unforgettable people who "rustle" them from abandoned lots and secret gardens today, revelling in the mystery of an "unknown yellow."

    This revised edition features 250 additional species, including recent cultivars and existing material on such plants as lilies, camellias, pinks, and bulbs.

    In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration & Insights from the Painter's Gardens, this completely revised edition of Elizabeth Murray's best-selling book offers new text, new images, and new garden plans based on Claude Monet's spectacular gardens at Giverny.

    All that extra practical information you need for maintaining a really flourishing garden, is here. Peter Cundall provides a guide to flower and vegetable gardens, house plants, home orchards and landscaping in each month of the gardening year. And, he adds his inimitable advice on such topics as drip irrigation; keeping dogs, cats and possums out of the garden; landscaping a sloping site; using rotary hoe and pest control without poisons.

    First and foremost, Travels in China provides a practical assessment of the plants that are either of ornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West. Roy Lancaster describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and provides an eminently readable account of a fascinating country, its people, and the plants that have enriched the gardens of Europe and North America. Hundreds of Lancaster's own attractive and colourful photographs are reproduced, interspersed with fascinating descriptions and anecdotes from his travels. This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50% more species on one mountain in China than there are in the whole of the British Isles. Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a country as vast as China makes this book relevant to all gardeners, be they from Norway or Spain, the United

    Roger B. Swain, host of PBS's popular series "The Victory Garden", combines his substantial experience as a gardener with his background as a biologist to tell us how to calculate the hours of sunlight a plot will get, how to keep raccoons out of sweet corn, and the best way to make up for a short rainfall, among other topics. Novice and experienced gardeners alike will welcome his book both as a practical tool and as an irrepressible appreciation of the craft.

    The oversize botanical drawings are accompanied by the original captions rendered in exquisite calligraphy.

    While sharing her experiences with gardening, she weaves a narrative filled with rich images of her friends, her loved ones, and her adventures in learning about the land and nature.

    Arranged in the calendar order in which they flower. Text and illustrations guide gardeners on how to plant and grow bulbs.

    Information on flower and leaf shape, growing requirements, and zone range is given.

    In this guide I discuss pruning for the desires of man, but also for the health of the trees and their associates. I have tried to make this guide easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to put into practice. I hope you find it that way. I emphasize that this is a guide and not a rule book full of absolutes. Themes are presented . There will always be variations on the themes. And finally, please use great care and caution when pruning. Because information is given does not mean that laymen should attempt all pruning operations.

    The plants are arranged according to their flowering season, from winter through to autumn, and the authoritative text describes each plant's origin, important characteristics and the growing conditions that suit it.Also included is a list of gardens open to the public and a guide to nurseries.

    This book answers most of your questions and some you hadn't considered. Although not a new book, it is current in its facts and tips. A must for people who want to start backyard gardens in Florida.

    -- Guide to successful gardening in dry areas of the country.-- Gives special attention to planning and growing colorful low-water-use gardens.

    

    

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    A human as well as botanical survey, this takes in gardening royalty and the more anonymous labors of gardening monks during the Dark Ages, surrendering choice facts: in 1344, a mole-catcher was paid four shillings to capture moles that were undermining a lawn. (Modern methods pale in human interest by comparison.) Each section features a concise planting plan and a list of recommended plants (at book's end is a compilation of plants suggested for use in specific period gardens). Full-color photographs of contemporary gardens and vintage photos, printed in sepia tones, of gardeners, tools and gardens of the past, are augmented by fastidiously executed illustrations and diagrams. This nostalgic look at the dynamism of past gardens will appeal to those with or without active green thumbs.

    Authoritative, comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, this book gives America's vegetable gardeners the know-how they need to win the war against garden pests and diseases.

    A Garden Book for Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast preserves its historic background of information on plants and growing conditions for this area while updating planting charts and tables to help you be a more successful gardener.

    Shows how to adapt knot gardens, water gardens, beds and borders, steps and fences, and other garden features from the past into one's own landscaping.

    Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

    Photographs and illustrations throughout.

    Genera are treated with detail appropriate to their importance, with information on history, classification, culture, propagation, pests and diseases, uses, and species and cultivars. Detailed encyclopedic plant listings are complemented by an equally comprehensive pictorial presentation. Not only are there more than 1100 color photographs — many showing the plants in their natural habitats — but there are also 43 color reproductions of botanical illustrations from 19th-century issues of Curtis's Botanical Magazine and other publications, taken from the author's extensive collection.

    

    Here is how to select, plant and care for grasses in all climates. 100 full-color photos.

    This book discusses garden design, mulches, and border arrangements, and tells how to use lavender, salvia, geraniums, dianthus, and other hardy perennials.

    

    Pioneers cleared the bush for grazing and cropping. Many introduced plants become weeds in an environment free of their natural competitors and predators. Land degradation now looms as Australia's most pressing environmental issue.

    

    

    Information on specific plants is given and their cultivation, as well as garden styles and how they are achieved. The author has also written The Garden Border Book.