Author: Mike HegerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816675883
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Originally published: Lincolnwood, Ill.: Contemporary Books, c1998.
Growing Perennials in Cold Climates
Author: Mike HegerPublisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Beginning with the 50 best perennial groups to grow in cold climates, this book details both the good and bad news about these plants in a reader-friendly, easy-to-follow fashion. 320 color photos. Available
Author: Nancy Rose
Author: Mike Heger, John Whitman, Debbie LonneeGrowing Roses in Cold Climates
Author: Richard HassPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816675937
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Describes both traditional and newer methods of winter protecting roses in cold climates, offering an expanded catalog of rose plants, profiles of major clases of roses, and instructions to achive ideal growing conditions.
Growing Figs in Cold Climates
Author: Lee ReichPublisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550927507
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
From Minnesota to Moscow — how to grow fresh figs in cold climates Growing Figs in Cold Climates is a complete, full-color, illustrated guide to organic methods for growing delicious figs in cold climates, well outside the traditional hot, arid home of this ancient fruiting tree. Coverage includes: Five methods for growing figs in cold climates including overwintering Cultivar selection for cool and cold climates Pruning techniques for a variety of methods of growing figs in cold climates Pest problems and solutions Harvesting, including ways to speed ripening, identify ripe fruit, and manage an overabundance Small-scale commercial fig production in cold climates. Fresh figs are juicy, full-bodied, and filled with a honey-sweet flavor, and because truly ripe figs are highly perishable, they are only available to those who grow their own. By choosing the right cultivars and techniques, figs can be grown across cool and cold growing zones of North America, Europe, and beyond, putting them within reach of almost every gardener. Easy and delicious — if you can grow a houseplant, you can grow a fig.
Cool Plants for Cold Climates
Author: Brenda C. AdamsPublisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 160223325X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A cold climate is no excuse for a dull, colorless garden. The key is knowing the right plants that will survive and thrive in even the chilliest environments. Who better to guide gardeners than an expert from the far north? Award-winning designer and Alaska gardener Brenda Adams has spent decades searching for exceptional plants that flourish in wintery climates. In Cool Plants for Cold Climates, she presents vivid and detailed portraits of the best and most beautiful of the bunch. When Adams moved from the warm Southwest to Alaska, she found herself in a different gardening world, with few guides on how to approach this new ecosystem. Now, more than twenty-five years later, she shares the secrets gained from her years of gardening experiments as well as bountiful advice from friends and local nurseries. She explains how to evaluate a plant, balancing its artistic attributes with its more utilitarian ones, as well as how to evaluate your space and soil. Adams then takes you into the nursery, offering guidance on how to pick the best of the best. Finally, she offers a detailed look at a wide variety of wonderful plants, highlighting those that offer overall beauty, are especially easy to care for, and solidly hardy. With more than three hundred vivid pictures of both individual plants and full gardens, Adams proves that there is a bounty of plants, in a rainbow of colors, waiting to brighten up your space.
Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates
Author: Mary Hockenberry MeyerPublisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
ISBN: 1946135658
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates, is written for inexperienced as well as seasoned gardeners, landscape designers, garden center employees, and anyone interested in native grasses that grow well in cold climates. New information on the benefits of native grasses including their importance as host plants for native Lepidoptera is included. Combinations of specific grasses used by larvae and perennials that the adult butterflies feed on is new and timely information.
A Way to Garden
Author: Margaret RoachPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699175
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
“A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.
Author: Martin Crawford