Expert insights help the home gardener select and grow beautiful plants. Add spectacular color to a landscape with the latest gardening information from Ortho. Includes scores of photos and in-depth instructions.

Discusses elements of garden design, preparing the site, selecting plants, and choosing accessories.

A guide to growing herbs, harvesting and preserving them, and their various uses.

For many their 40th birthday is a challenge to stay fit and attractive without succumbing to the youth craze trumpeted by the media. This work is a newly conceptualized Wellness-Training developed as a synthesis of Eastern and Western tradition from the authors' many-years experience with different health systems. Physical exercises from the areas of fitness, yoga, and qigong und creative expressive dance are combined with mental meditation and visualization techniques. This training is especially suited for women in mid-life who are a little gentler with their bodies and who want to maintain mobility and a trim figure. The exercises are easy to learn but extremely effective and allow much latitude for personal preferences. Training programmes can be individually assembled from the different training building blocks. The book takes the reader on a journey of new and creative possibilities to break with daily routine and do good for oneself.

"Practical Horticulture provides the basics in horticulture science and clearly illustrates how that knowledge is applied in both home and production agriculture. This easy-to-read and scientifically through text contains an abundance of photographs and precise drawings; a comprehensive section on anatomy, physiology nomenclature, and other basic topics; and secondary sections focusing on horticulture and indoor plants. Other topics include the ethics of horticulture; safety issues concerning pesticide applications; non-chemical pest and disease control; the role of organisms in plant growth; and commercial production of container-grown landscape plants, bedding plants, vegetables, commercial seed productions, and greenhouse pot plants."-- Back cover.

Affordable Landscaping tells you everything you need to know to plan a landscape that fits your yard, your family's needs, and your budget. The information in this book can save you thousands of dollars by showing you how to do your own landscaping--grading the land, installing an irrigation system, drain lines, and retaining walls, and selecting and planting everything from trees to lawns.

Garden professionals in all branches of the industry have developed many ways to do their work more quickly and easily. They have shortcuts for laying sod, getting rid of weeds, and digging ditches. They know better ways to make cuttings of perennial plants and to prune apple trees for better yields.This book shares hundreds of these ideas with you. Professional gardeners of every kind were surveyed to gather the very best tricks for gardening better, quicker, or easier. The tips presented here cover planning landscapes, caring for all types of garden plants, lawn care, plant propagation, increasing vegetable crops -- everything you need to know to garden like the pros.