Gardens Across America: East of the Mississippi

Gardens Across America: East of the Mississippi
Title Gardens Across America: East of the Mississippi PDF eBook
Author Thomas S. Spencer
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 476
Release 2005
Genre Arboretums
ISBN 1589791029

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A comprehensive guide to American public gardens and arboreta, this two volume series provides a state-by-state listing of nearly 2,000 gardens accessible to the public. Each entry provides a general overview of the garden and/or arboretum, hours of operation, admission fees (if any), directions, and a list of special collections and activities.

Gardens Across America, West of the Mississippi

Gardens Across America, West of the Mississippi
Title Gardens Across America, West of the Mississippi PDF eBook
Author John J. Russell
Publisher Taylor Trade Publishing
Pages 377
Release 2006-03-03
Genre Travel
ISBN 1461708915

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Gardening is one of America's most popular hobbies, and attendance at public gardens and arboreta continues to rise. Gardens Across America: Vol. II is a comprehensive guide to nearly 1,000 gardens west of the Mississippi. Each entry in this state-by-state guide contains such basic information as hours of operation and directions as well as a listing of activities, educational programs, and unique botanical features.

The Reason for Flowers

The Reason for Flowers
Title The Reason for Flowers PDF eBook
Author Stephen Buchmann
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 352
Release 2015-07-21
Genre Nature
ISBN 147675554X

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“Fascinating...Buchmann’s knowledge and enthusiasm jump off the page.” —The Wall Street Journal “An extraordinarily good book.” —Edward O. Wilson The lively and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, lore, economics, and ecology of the world ’s flowers, written by a devoted scientist and illustrated with his stunning photographs. Flowers—and the fruits they often become—feed, clothe, and inspire us. Indeed, they have done so for all of human history. Yet although we use flowers to celebrate important occasions, to express love, and to please our senses, we know little about them, their functions in nature, or even how we depend on them. In a volume that will delight gardeners, naturalists, cooks, artists, or anyone interested in history or culture, pollination ecologist Stephen Buchmann serves as an expert guide through the fascinating world of flowers. He explains how other species relate to flowers in ways crucial to the natural world. Next he takes us on an engaging exploration of the roles flowers play in the production of food, spices, medicines, and perfumes. Flowering plants, Buchmann then shows, have long served as inspirational themes in art and literature. Flowers have in fact so thoroughly seduced us that we now buy some ten million a day, driving breeders to create infinite varieties and unusual blooms. In this cultural and natural investigation of floral history, Stephen Buchmann’s masterful narrative illuminates just why there is, indeed, a reason for flowers.

National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens

National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens
Title National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens PDF eBook
Author Mary Zuazua Jenkins
Publisher
Pages 406
Release 1998
Genre Gardening
ISBN

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The first comprehensive guide to outstanding gardens in America features all the where and when to go information to plan a visit. It tells readers what to see in various grand estate gardens, private pleasure gardens, charming cottage gardens, exotic Asiatic gardens, famous botanical gardens, humorous topiary gardens, and all-season conservatories. It also tells the stories of who built the gardens and the stories of famous owners and designers. Photos.

Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East

Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East
Title Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East PDF eBook
Author Carolyn Summers
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 249
Release 2010
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0813547067

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The beautifully illustrated Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East approaches landscape design from an ecological perspective, encouraging professional horticulturalists and backyard enthusiasts alike to intensify their use of indigenous or native plants. These plants, ones that grow naturally in the same place in which they evolved, form the basis of the food web. Wildlife simply cannot continue to survive without them-nor can we. Summers provides guidelines for * The best ways to use exotic and nonindigenous plants responsibly * Easy-to-follow strategies for hosting butterflies, bees, moths, birds, and fish * Designs for traditional gardens using native trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, perennials, fruiting plants, and groundcovers as substitutes for exotic plants * How to control plant reproduction, choose cultivars, open-pollinated indigenous plants, and different types of hybrids.

400 Trees and Shrubs for Small Spaces

400 Trees and Shrubs for Small Spaces
Title 400 Trees and Shrubs for Small Spaces PDF eBook
Author Diana Miller
Publisher Timber Press
Pages 218
Release 2008-01-01
Genre Gardening
ISBN 0881928755

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Trees and shrubs are a valuable asset to a garden bringing structure, shade, year-round interest and the all-important vertical dimension. But choosing the right ones for small gardens is a fine art, and it's all too easy to end up with heavyweight shrubs overtaking the border, dysfunctional climbers and trees outgrowing their designated spaces. In this practical reference, woody plant expert Diana Miller takes the anguish out of the process by recommending plants and cultivation techniques that excel in small garden spaces. Small gardens require careful planting, and the book starts by considering plants that fulfil a particular design function, such as trees that provide the right levels of shade for an underplanting of choice bulbs, columnar or weeping trees for very restricted spaces, and specimen shrubs that provide an effective foil for herbaceous perennials in a mixed border. At the heart of this book is a comprehensive plant directory that provides detailed descriptions, including full cultivation advice for over 400 top-performing trees and shrubs. Further advice on pruning, information on planting to encourage wildlife and handy lists that allow readers to search by colour, height and other characteristics are invaluable.

House & Garden

House & Garden
Title House & Garden PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 502
Release 1915
Genre Architecture, Domestic
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