World-renowned flower farmer and floral designer Erin Benzakein reveals all the secrets to growing, cultivating, and arranging gorgeous dahlias. These coveted floral treasures come in a dazzling range of colors, sizes, and forms, with enough variety for virtually every garden space and personal preference, making them one of the most...
Pollinator Friendly Gardening:...
Author: Rhonda Fleming Hayes
Publisher: Voyageur Press, 2016.
Want to do your part in helping your local pollinators flourish? Pollinator Friendly Gardening makes it easy. Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about making sure your local environment helps bees, butterflies, and birds survive and thrive? If you are a beekeeper, are you looking for the ideal...
MARTHA'S FLOWERS : growing...
Author: MARTHA STEWART
Publisher: CLARKSON POTTER
Growing Flowers: Everything You Need...
Author: Niki Irving
Publisher:
Unlike old-school gardening books, Irving's beautifully photographed book features simple, and engaging know-how enabling you to grow, harvest, and arrange a cutting garden of flowers. An instructional guide to gardening for beginners or those looking to hone their botanical skills, Growing Flowers teaches everything...
Cutting Garden: Growing and Arranging...
Author: Sarah Raven
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
This practical guide shows how to grow decorative flowers and foliage and use them to create floral arrangements, plans, plant and maintain a well-stocked cutting garden, and demonstrates how to create arrangements ranging from simple bunches to romantic hanging globes, swags and medallions.
The Bee-Friendly Garden: Design...
Author: Kate Frey
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
For every gardener who cares about the planet, this guide to designing a bee garden helps you create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees.In The Bee-Friendly Garden, award-winning garden designer Kate Frey and bee expert Gretchen LeBuhn provide everything you need...
Grow a Living Wall: Create Vertical...
Author: Shawna Coronado
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Make a beautiful, practical, environmentally conscious garden, even in a small space - grow UP with a living wall!A living wall is a vertical structure, usually outside the home, that is built with live plants growing in containers hung in a decorative arrangement.Sometimes called "Green Walls" and "Vertical...
The Cut Flower Patch: Grow your...
Author: Louise Curley
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Louise Curley looks at what makes a great cut flower, ideal conditions and soil and the tools you'll need. There is advice on what to grow - from favorite hardy annuals, half hardies and biennials to spring and summer bulbs to adding foliage and fillers to balance arrangements - and advice on how and when to sow, how to support...
Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract...
Author: Scott Hoffman Black
Publisher: Timber Press
Library Journal Starred Review Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of colorful garden guests who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where they will thrive. This optimistic...
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden:...
Author: Erin Benzakein
Publisher: Chronicle Books
From Erin Benzakein, a leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm, Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration - a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements organized by season. This beautiful...
The Midwestern Native Garden: Native...
Author: Charlotte Adelman
Publisher: Ohio University Press;...
Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are considering adding a few native plants or intending to go native...
Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy...
Author: Felder Rushing
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Thanks to the resurgence of home and community gardening, more and more people are discovering the pleasure of biting into a sun-ripened tomato picked right off the vine, the earthy smell of freshly turned soil, and the cheerful harbingers of spring such as daffodils, irises, and pansies. But they are also discovering that...
Container Theme Gardens: 42 Combinations,...
Author: Nancy J. Ondra
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Simple and foolproof! Enjoy beautiful container plantings with no stress or fuss. Container Theme Gardens offers 42 plans for container arrangements, each using just five specific plants that you can find at your local garden center. There's something here for every setting and every style, including a meadow in a box,...
Perennials for Midwestern Gardens:...
Author: Anthony W. Kahtz
Publisher: Timber Press
Gardeners everywhere want to grow perennials. But with its hot, humid summers and often bitterly cold winters, the Midwest presents a formidably challenging climate. This book provides concise, experience-tested information about popular perennials-including herbs, ornamental grasses, and bulbs-that can be grown successfully...
Roses Without Chemicals
Author: Peter Kukielski
Publisher: Timber Pr
Presents a guide to roses, discussing the different types, best growing conditions, and common pests, and describing 150 roses that have a high resistance to disease.
Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big with...
Author: Kristin Green
Publisher: Timber Press
Whoever coined the phrase xCmoney doesnxt grow on treesxD must not have been a resourceful gardener. While we may not be able to harvest physical money, with the right plants and techniques gardeners can rely on nature to give itself away for free. Plantiful shows you how to have an easy, gorgeous garden packed with plants...
