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The Compleat Gardener
Molly Hackett & Georgianna Taylor
The Missoulian
c/o Farcountry Press
3020 Bozeman Avenue, Helena, MT 59601
0963467948 $14.95 1-800-654-1105
Collaboratively written by master Montana gardeners Molly Hackett and
Georgianna Taylor, The Compleat Gardener: Questions And Answers To Northern
Climate Gardening is an informed and informative horticultural guide entirely
laid out in an easy-to-read question-and-answer format to address a variety of
tough gardening problems. Organized by season, the questions spread over a wide
range of plant-related problems from keeping ivy alive in winter to the best
flowers to plant to attract hummingbirds. The Compleat Gardener truly lives up
to its title and is a highly recommended and "reader friendly" resource.
Advanced Home Gardening
Miranda Smith
Creative Homeowner
PO Box 38, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-0038
1580110738 $24.95 1-800-631-7795
Advanced Home Gardening: Cutting-Edge Growing Techniques For Gardeners is
expert gardener and gardening instructor Miranda Smith is a beautifully
presented and informative gardening guide enhanced with over 800 color
photographs and illustrations. Featuring detailed instructions about growing
flowers, vegetables, herbs, fruits, and just about anything one desires using
expert means of raising the healthiest plants and coaxing the highest yield,
Advanced Home Gardening is a solid, practical, "user friendly" reference
covering everything from plant pests and hardiness zones to exposure
requirements, blooming seasons, and propagation information. A first-class
guide for the serious-minded home gardener, Advanced Home Gardening is
enthusiastically recommended for personal and community library gardening
reference collections.
Urban Sanctuaries
Stephen Anderton
Timber Press
133 SW Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland, OR 97204-3527
0881925020 $29.95 1-800-327-5680
Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, Urban Sanctuaries: Peaceful Havens
For The City Gardener by gardening columnist, author and lecturer Stephen
Anderton is a basic and straightforward guide for green thumbs living in the
big city. In addition to completely "user friendly" and basic gardening advice
and clearly portrayed do-it-yourself instructions, Urban Sanctuaries also
features numerous "design solutions" to the creation of aesthetically pleasing
home gardens that combine beauty with freshness and practicality. A fine book
for anyone who wants to reap the visual, fragrant, and edible wards of
introducing plant life into their city home, Urban Sanctuaries is a highly
recommended addition to personal, professional, and academic reading lists and
reference collections.
The Prairie Spirit In Landscape Gardening
Wilhelm Miller
University of Massachusetts Press
PO Box 429, Amherst, MA 01004
1558493298 $34.95 umass.edu/umpress
The Prairie Spirit In Landscape Gardening is a reprint of a classic treatise
first published in 1915, about a uniquely American style of landscape design -
the "prairie style." Black-and-white photographs of designs for Chicago's
Graceland Cemetery and Midwestern landscapes by Walter Burley Griffin and
Warren H. Manning complement an informative text that has stood the test of
time as a hallmark of American landscape gardening cultural trends. An
extensive introduction to the new edition rounds out this remarkable and
enduring work, The Prairie Spirit In Landscape Gardening is a welcome and
strongly recommended addition to personal, professional, academic, and
community library landscaping and gardening supplemental reading lists and
reference collections.
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